Sophie Morris, Chief Political Correspondent for The Saturday Paper, chooses the new PM’s weak pursuit of his republic aim thus far as the theme for her Page 1 article. She says he is “now content to let the ALP steal the debate’s lead” by making the case “voters cared little for the cause to which he had, in the 1990s, dedicated years of his life and millions of his own money.” Link below will take you to Sophie’s article. [“Turnbull gives up on his beloved republic” by Sophie Morris, The Saturday Paper, 14-20 November 2015]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
