Women for an Australian Republic was represented at a meeting of all republican groups. WfaAR identified its priorities as passion for the campaign; action at grass roots level not just lobbying directed at politicians; working together on the hard issues and identifying ways to sustain campaigners on the road ahead. We cautioned that the Republic should mean a lot more to people than merely working out a way to select the head of state and that women and Indigenous people had to be involved in all aspects of creating the Republic.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
