As well as Senator Katy Gallagher (ALP ACT), there are other Labor women active on the republic in Parliament. Labor for an Australian Republic was formed in February 2012. Four of the State and Territory Parliamentary Convenors are currently women: Terri Butler (Member for Griffith, Qld); Kate Ellis (Adelaide, SA); Melissa Parke (Fremantle, WA) and Jane Garrett, Member for Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Senator Lisa Singh from Tasmania is one of the two National Parliamentary Convenors of LfAR.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
