Among the few women journalists analysing the result, Michelle Grattan in The Sydney Morning Herald thinks that wiser heads will rule the republic debate from now on. Her view is that until the cynicism of voters – and particularly the battlers – about the political process can be successfully addressed, the republic is doomed. Louise Dodson in The Financial Review comments that the republic will be a long time coming given the growing polarisation of the republic debate between the two major parties, conservative desires for the anti-change mood to be heeded and moves by the Prime Minister to close down the debate.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
