At at backyard gathering with three families in suburban Melbourne, Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, undertakes to hold a referendum on the Republic. He said that the question was too confusing last time and, even though not a “first order issue”, Labor plans another vote if they win this years federal election. Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown, came out in support saying that the Greens would vote with Labor in the Senate to ensure that the referendum proposal gets up.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
