This time it’s Marie Bashir, the outgoing Governor of New South Wales after 13 years service to the monarch all while living in her own home instead of the regulation gubernatorial palace. We now await the Penny Wensley gong when she quits the Qld Governor’s residence in July. While WfaAR hopes that Abbott would have been on his knees, at the very least praying – among a number of options – nightly in his cell at the AFP staff college for divine help to resist naming more knights and dames, having seen the precedent set by the PM with the departing vice-regal rep from Canberra, the States will have pushed their own Governors forward for elevated recognition and a title. Seems the entreaties were not at the required standard (Tony ‘the States made me do it’ Abbott).
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
