Young women take the top three spots out of the ten essays shortlisted in ARM’s essay competition for high school students. The winner was Gihansa Samarawickrema from Victoria, with Orla Latawski (WA) second and Sophie Macdonald (NSW) third. The winning essay on the topic “Young Australians Deserve to Have a Say on an Australian Head of State” was published by Fairfax. You can read an edited version of it on the link below. [“Give young people a voice on the head of state” by Gihansa Samarawickrema, The Sydney Morning Herald online, 10 April 2019]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
