At the Jessie Street National Women’s Library in Sydney, University of Wollongong academic, Jane Innes, argues that by most criteria Australia is already a republic and poses the question: how and when will we manage to transcend the last fragment of our colonial past? Her paper features interviews with five prominent academics, lawyers and leaders of the labour movement – including Professor Elaine Thompson of the University of New South Wales – talking about the reasons for the loss of the 1999 referendum and how the community currently views the republic. Click here to read her paper.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
