PM Julia Gillard promotes Australia Day as standing for ‘Mateship” in her first Australia Day speech. Fortunately, she stated that she is “still a feminist” on the ABC’s Four Corners program on 7 February. WfaAR was relieved to hear this as it’s a fair question. Former SAS officer and Australian Christian Lobby leader, Jim Wallace, later stated that the strong male bonding through mateship in our culture is the reason that our troops are so good. Wallace was commenting on the “sex on Skype” Defence scandal in an interview on ABC Radio, 13 April 2011.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
