NSW Liberal Premier Barry O’Farrell announces that the NSW Governor would return to live in Government House by the end of the year. The residential part of the building will be renovated at taxpayer’s expense. This reverses the forward-thinking decision made by republican Labor Premier Bob Carr in 1996 to open Government House and its extensive harbour-side grounds to the public, to use it only for formal occasions and to house the Governor and his or her staff in modern offices in the city. At present, 150,000 people use the facility annually – this may not continue.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
