Elaine Thompson writes a feature article in The Sydney Morning Herald saying of course, it’s time to become a republic because of its symbolic significance. She correctly pinpoints an overhaul of the whole constitution as essential to the development of the republic and calls for regular constitutional conventions. Elaine was formerly an academic at the University of New South Wales. Read an extract of her article.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
