27 September

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on republican feeling in Queensland. Quoted is Mrs Betty Smout whose husband’s brother, Ted now 101, is a founding father of the Australian Republican movement in Queensland. She says that she feels strongly about Australia becoming a republic, “Passionate about it? I’m rabid,” Mrs Smout said and she went on to say,” A lot of people including monarchists, say it’s inevitable. I say, ‘Why not now?’. We should be accepted a Australians, rather than as a colonial offshoot of Britain?”
Ms Kerry Jones from ACM says that Queensland is the strongest NO state with the undecided vote at about 40 percent.
Tony Stephens’ article also reports that Mary Kelly, one of the Queensland delegates at the Constitutional Convention in 1998, has joined the YES….and MORE group.