Shortly after being appointed, our first female Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, says “I am a strong advocate of a republic and many people, me included, are looking for the right opportunity to reinvigorate the debate….I don’t think the time has come yet but it may come during my tenure.” Ms Roxon has a strong track record as a republican, was a member of the Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum (1998-99) and, as shadow A-G in the mid 2000s, consulted widely about the steps to create a republic [Nicola Roxon says no to bill of rights by Sue Dunlevy, The Australian, 13 December 2011]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
