Emma Tom concludes in her opinion piece in The Australian that the down-to-earth farm worker Wendy Slack-Smith, who was runner-up in the Australian Princess competion (a reality TV show) to become hitched to a rich Englishman, could put her skills to much better use as….. the first president of the republic. She is described as “a fine human being”.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
