Catherine Moore (Greens, Bill of Rights, Indigenous People’s delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention) of Charley’s Forest NSW writes to The Canberra Times saying that the republic needs plenty of work. She says that “if we are to move to a republic, it has to be a republic that is owned by all Australians, not imposed on us by a small group who think they know what is right for us”. Read her letter in full here.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
