Indigenous leaders unanimously calls for the question on the draft preamble to be dropped, saying that the new version was fundamentally flawed because it had failed to recognise the inherent and distinct rights of the first nations which have been recognised by the High Court and that it had been put together without adequate consultation with anyone in the community. The drafting was described as insensitive. They also said that there should be one question: Should Australia become a republic?
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
