Lady Bjelke-Petersen, president of Queenslanders for Constitutional Monarchy, believes that the crisis in East Timor will convince Australians to vote NO in the referendum on 6 November. She adds that the referendum was certain to fail in Queensland, claiming that a second referendum would be necessary to remove the British monarch as King or Queen of the State (reported in The Australian)
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
