Photographs and media reports are emerging of Prime Minister Morrison arriving at RAAF bases. There he walks a red carpet and is greeted by an offical military welcoming party presenting arms that Defence terms a “Ceremonial Stairway Guard”. This is not the right way to go about things, he’s not the Head of State. Previous Prime Ministers Rudd and Turnbull, who tramped the asphalt unprotected, were critical although all PMs have been increasingly presidential since the time of John Howard who started it all. One Labor MP described it as “right up there with knights and dames”, another as “confected pagentry at taxpayers’ expense”. See for yourself on the link below from ABC online.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
