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Republic and Gender

Posted on November 16 2011

Sarah Brasch, National Convenor WfaAR, speaks at WEA in Sydney about the republic and gender and discusses the reasons why WfaAR supports alternating gender for Australia’s own head of state  Read what she had to say.

Download: The Republic and Gender [205KB, pdf]

Download: Why WfaAR supports Alternating Gender for Head of State [77KB, pdf]

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For a brief but useful guide to republicanism in Australia, see the entry in Wikipedia

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Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867

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Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW

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Senate Inquiry

Report of Senate Inquiry into the Republic Plebiscite Bill released 15 June 2009

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