ABC sports journalist Angela Pippos, was funny and engaging; federal Labor MP for Hotham since 2013, Clare O’Neil did a number on the British royals while historian and author Dr Clare Wright quoted the republican passion of Dublin-born actress Clara Seekamp c1819-1908, temporary editor of the Ballarat Advertiser and Southern Cross (her husband was in gaol for seditious libel), from her book “The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka”. All three women spoke well and strongly for the Republic. The speakers were described as “richer, more textured and more interesting” than ARM’s usual fare. Everyone attending the forum at The Pumphouse Hotel in Fitzroy was delighted to have an all female panel, the first in living memory. (For more information about the interesting life of Clara Seekamp consult the entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography online). Read Angela Pippos on link below
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
