Shades of Marie Antoinette. Stephanie Peatling writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about the ARM’s desire to target rural women as influential supporters of the republic. Read her article, “Let them eat cake” say Republicans” reporting ARM’s view that rural women could help with cake stalls if nothing else. WfaAR finds much to quibble with in the views of ARM as reported in this article based on the strong support evident among rural women, including the CWA, for constitutional change at the Women’s Constitutional Convention in 1998 and through personal contact since with articulate and well informed rural women supporting the republic.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
