The official release of the Palace Letters brings an abundance of analyses on the implications for the country and for the Republic. This striking historical perspective suggests their reveal should bring our links to the British to an end and elaborates the extraordinary endurance of the British Crown since 1788 that eventually survived the bombshell of the 1975 dismissal, its long outfall and the republic referendum in 1999. The closing of that chapter of our history should usher in a Republic – not just any republic but a “a meaningful republic” – to read click on link below. [“The Queen’s Cur: On Kerr, the Palace Letters and the Crown’s Silence” by Russell Marks, The Monthly blog online, 15 July 2020]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
