The Government announces that it will not proceed with a Charter of Rights following the National Human Rights Consultation. Submissions to the Inquiry were overwhelmingly in favour of the Charter. It had been assumed that further progress on the Republic referendum would follow a positive outcome of the Consultation to determine how to introduce the proposed Charter.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
