Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, recommends to the Queen as Britain’s Head of State – and ours – that the Parliament be prorogued and she immediately agrees. Speculation about a possible opportunity for the Queen to exercise her powers differently and not follow the advice of her Government or MInisters is immediately dispelled. This article from Foreign Policy sets out the issues and the context. Click on link below. [“The Queen can’t do anything about Brexit” by James Palmer, Foreign Policy online, 29 August 2019]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
