Really hot article by a really good Australian female republican. Jamila Rizvi editor of Mamamia, gets to the heart of celebrity and the republic. If you are a wavering female republican, conflicted by your feelings for Will and Kate, read this. WfaAR was shocked that when Kate needed four hands (one for hat, one for hem blowing upwards, one for George and one for handrail) and wobbling on precariously high heels, she got no help from William – doing that odd royal fiddle-thing with his cufflinks – as she just about toppled over going down the steep aircraft stairs on arrival in Wellington NZ. Why do royal women get this sort of treatment? Doesn’t say much for equality. After first appearing on Mamamia, this article was reprinted in the Huffington Post on 10 April 2014 [“Confessions of an Australian Republican with a Kate Middleton style crush” by Jamila Rizvi]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
