At the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games – where Australia wins more medals than everyone else because there’s not much competition – Scotland and all things Scottish are on show ahead of the independence referendum on 18 September. Who knows what might happen if the nationalism kick is a great as that from the Brisbane Games in 1982 which added significant heft to republican desire in the early 1990s. The Games were opened by the head of the Commonwealth, the Queen of Australia, who could also be the Queen of Scotland very soon.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
