Women just elected to ARM’s national council are Michelle Wood (NSW) Kathy Schoo and Deborah Crossing (both from the ACT), Rhiannon Newman (SA) and Kathleen Jones (Qld). Half the elected council members are now women. This is a big step forward for ARM as it’s many years since there have been more than one or two – or none! Together with the two ex-officio branch convenors, seven out of 18 members of council are female.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
