Dr Jane Connors, a social historian from the University of Sydney, talks about different types of monarchists on ABC radio. She distinguishes between popular monarchists (mainly women who follow the doings of royal families and the cult of celebrity “exasperating generations of Australian republicans”) and constitutional monarchists who believe that place of the British monarchy at the apex of our system of government is right. [Morning Interview with Margaret Throsby on ABC Classic FM]. Dr Connors wrote on this subject for ABC Online in the lead up to the Constitutional Convention (ConCon) in 1998. Other women writing for ABC Online at that time were Faith Bandler (see item of 25 May below); Elspeth Cameron; Irene Moss; Barbara Greenwood and Helen Razer covering a wide range of views on the Republic. Read their essays here.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
