Professor Megan Davis gives the Mabo oration in Adelaide. In her speech, she identifies The Voice enshrined in the Constitution as the final step – the social justice package – of the unfinished political settlement that followed from the Mabo ruling on native title in the High Court in 1992. This is compelling reasoning. Just as the Republic is unfinished business from Federation even more lost in the mists of time, now 120 years ago.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
