Read comments by National Convenor, Sarah Brasch, on ABC online in this article rather sensationally claiming that the ALP had dropped its commitment to a Republic referendum in the first term of 3 years if it forms a government on 21 May. She says this is the right thing to do because if the Republic referendum goes first, then it will be flawed from the start. It will not be a Reconciled Republic and a huge opportunity for national healing will be lost, unnecessarily so. [“Labor no longer committed to republic vote in first term, prioritising Indigenous recognition instead” by Henry Belot, ABC online 14 April 2022 and amended on 15 April 2022]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
