Penelope Layland writes in The Canberra Times about how a NO vote- which she cannot believe will happen – will galvanise her from 7 November to embrace all things monarchical, including learning how to curtsey. Her article is accompanied by a photograph of the Queen resplendent wearing a crown and the Duke of Edinburgh in full military dress at the opening of the Australian Parliament in 1977, which looks ridiculous as it does anachronistic. Read the full text of this article.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
