Really good article by Emma-Kate Symons in the AFR that exposes even more fawning over the royals on pointless and costly visits to Australia. Now, new PM Abbott ups the ante after Julia Gillard’s terrible efforts during the Queen’s visit in 2011 (speech of welcome in the Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra) and that of Charles and Camilla for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 (“crimson thread of kinship” speech at the unveiling of Queen Elizabeth Terrace in the Parliamentary Zone). We’re seeing far too many royal visits: three in the last three years, and far too much inappropriate behaviour towards them by our Prime Ministers. Read the article below [Sycophantic Monarchism Unbecoming of Australian PM by Emma-Kate Symons, Australian Financial Review, 8 October 2013]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
