ARM announces the results of its two-yearly National Council elections open to all members. This time there has been a significant increase in the number of successful women candidates: 6 out of 10 elected (of 37 candidates in total) being: Jenny Hocking, Julia Banks, Michelle Wood, Alice Crawford, Leanne Smith and Meredith Doig. Added to the Youth Convenor, Anna Walker (elected from three candidates), plus a number of women filling the role of State and Territory Convenors, who are automatically members of the Council, this is a good result and the first time the majority of those elected are female. ARM made a special effort to encourage women members to nominate for National Council, also a first.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
