Rachael White asks why Quentin Bryce didn’t join the distinguished and exclusive group who have refused knighthoods. White says that titles have a long history of causing division – since the 1850s in fact. She also writes, “The outgoing Governor- General wishes to see an Australian child grow up to be a our first Australian-born head of state. It is in a society whose ‘true values’ are not obscured by the social distinctions conferred by titles that she is most likely to get her wish.” Read her full article from the link below [ “Dame Quentin Bryce should have turned down her title” by Rachael White, The Guardian online, 27 March 2014]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
