Stuart Heritage in The Guardian says he can’t hate seeing so many photos of Prince George but he can hate “those who make him a travelling sideshow”. He wonders when he will be able to hate the tiny prince, will it be “when’s he crowned as King and becomes the figurehead of an expensive post-imperial anachronism that serves no purpose other than making a handful of Australians clap once every 20 years?” Heritage says he’s been bombarded with info “about the piles of gifts that grateful Antipodeans have lavished upon him because his Mum and Dad have turned up and tooled around like a pair of self-consciousness gonks for a millisecond”. WfaAR comments: how ridiculous we look! More self-awareness needed. [“Prince George’s face has been permanently seared on to our collective cortex and it’s infuriating” by Stuart Heritage, The Guardian Weekly, 25 April to 1 May 2014]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
