Appointment of First Woman Governor-General at last

Quentin Bryce is announced as our first female Governor-General to take up her job in September 2008. Fantastic to have a woman (finally catching up with Canada and New Zealand) but shame that this reputed republican is beholden to our foreign head of state. Let’s hope that by the end of her term in 2013, we are well on the way to becoming a Republic with our own head of state.