At Parliament House in Canberra, the national launch of the Women’s Charter for Political Reform by Sydney organisation, Women into Politics. The Charter proposes People’s Conventions as a means of fostering greater public participation in democracy and public policy making. Read the charter on WIP’s site The Conventions will be a key part of the public debate necessary for Australia to become a republic, following the Constitutional and Women’s Constitutional Conventions of 1998.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
