ARM announces its new National Council for the next two years. Three of the nine elected members are women: Jaci Barker, Louisa Graham and Lynne Minion who join the four female State convenors on Council: Julie Armstrong (WA); Shannon Schedlich-Day (SA), Lisa Singh (Tas) and Annie Tennant (NSW), making a total of seven women out of 16 on National Council. Louisa Graham from Sydney was later elected Junior Deputy Chair.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
