At ARM’s forum in Melbourne today, captions to photographs name the men on the dais but the couple of women there, also speaking and participating, are not identified. Melissa Conley Tyler, National Executive Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, outed herself on The Interpreter online (published by the Lowy Institute for International Policy) on 10 June while ARM finally named Melba Marginson, Executive Director of the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition on 30 June. Enough said. Here’s what Melissa had to say about the event.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
