Tanya Gold takes the institution of the British monarchy and its many members to (expensive) task in her Guardian article about the increasing amounts that it costs British taxpayers to keep them and the evasion that goes with it. WfaAR also notes the unfavourable reports in the British media about local attitudes during Prince Harry’s visit last week as highlighted in this article. They think it colonially juvenile and immature. We should take good note. [Nothing’s changed – the royals still grow fatter each year at our expense by Tanya Gold, The Guardian UK, 11 October 2013]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
