Former diplomat Mary Simon is appointed as Canada’s next Governor-General after a rocky couple of years during previous tenures in the office. She will be the first Inuk, Inuit speaking (but not French) Governor-General as well. The article on the link is an interesting discussion about the political aspects of the Governor-General’s role in Canada as it comes to grips with the state-endorsed genocide of its Indigenous peoples as well as the doctrine of terra nullius. [“Canada’s new governor-general, Mary Simon, is poised to engage in her most challenging mission yet by Robert Tay-Boroughs, The Conversation online, 15 July 2021]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
