WfaAR writes to the ACT Chief Minister requesting that the reference to the monarch be dropped from the City of Canberra’s coat of arms. The current motto is “For the Queen, the Law and the People”. This does not sit well with the decidedly republican population in the capital territory that voted 64% YES in 1999. We say that the Centenary of Canberra in 2013 would be a good time to make this change. Western Australia, South Australia and the City of Sydney do not have mottoes on their coats of arms.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
