One NO voice for the referendum, expect it to be an extremely loud one, will be run by a small posse of entirely predictable people: ex Liberal Ministers Peter Reith, Nick Minchin, ex Labor Minister turned academic Gary Johns plus Julian Leeser, anti Bill of Rights campaigner and member of the NO case committee in 1999 and Tim Wilson of Q&A/IPA – no women please, we’re British – launches online against an in-your-face backdrop of the flag, well mainly the Union Jack part and the odd star. They have started by bleating about the lack of government funding for the NO case even though they look pretty well funded already. We’ll be watching this one closely. You can too.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
