WfaAR acknowledges the contribution and leadership of Kerry Jones from Sydney, Executive Director of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy and chair of the NO campaign who was the leading woman in the debate. She did a difficult job, very well. Out in the mainstream, Robert Macklin in The Canberra Times of 6 November described her manner as “carping” and noted that it would be relief not to have to listen to her anymore. Other women prominently associated with the NO campaign were Melbourne barrister and spokesperson for ACM, Sophie Panopoulos and Melbourne barrister and later Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for Tasmania, Dr Jocelynne Scutt.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
