It must be the royal visit to bring out this sort of fervour/fever espoused by a letter writer to The Canberra Times. If only, it was this easy or simplistic: “As long as the Queen, her heirs and successors, occupy the position as our head of state, no one else can. To my mind, this is the best possible reason for retaining the monarchy.” Or more to the point, is this really what we are up against? [ “Save the Queen”, letter to the editor from Andy Millar of Weston ACT, 5 May 2014]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
