Australian born writer, Kathy Lette, now resident in the UK, sees things as they are. She reports that a new survey about a Cambridge baby rates the child – now the subject of intense speculation and the heir to the heir to the heir to the British throne, if it’s a boy that is – as “the most influential child in the world” and concludes that “Australians are fond of all kinds of queens, but it doesn’t mean that we want to be ruled by them. So let’s not allow a royal baby to be a PR stealth weapon, flying right under our royal radar.” [Republicans beware: a royal baby will help the monarchy by Kathy Lette, The Age, 10 September 2012]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
