the first public hearings of the Senate Inquiry into the Republic are held at Parramatta and Melbourne. Of the 21 people invited to address the inquiry on these two days, only three are women, Allison Henry, National Director of ARM; Kerry Jones, Executive Director of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy and Associate Professor Kim Rubenstein from the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne. Read Kim’s submission to the Senate Inquiry here.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
