Judith Brooks’ letter on Leadership and the Republic

Judith Brooks of Women for an Australian Republic and Barwon Heads Vic writes to The Australian about Malcolm Turnbull’s commitment to leadership and the republic. This is what she wrote: “By declaring that Australia will never separate from the British monarchy until the death of Elizabeth II, Malcolm Turnbull, our new ‘confident’ Leader of the Opposition reneges on an obvious leadership challenge. Now he is in a position to actually lead on this important unfinished national business and make amends for the disaster he presided over in the first republic referendum, he squibs the fight. He wants Australia to be a confident country which can do anything yet he wants us to wait a decade, or even two, to assume a truly independent national identity because, presumably it’s all too hard. Leadership is about many things, including making history rather than following it.”