In the neighbourhood, New Calendonia stages its second referendum on independence from France. The result was 46.7 percent in favour compared with 43.3 percent YES in the first referendum in 2018, an increase of 3.4 percent. Turnout was 85.7 percent. The third and final referendum is to be held before 2024.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
