People’s Conference at Corowa, on the Murray River in southern New South Wales and site of the 1893 Corowa Conference, the first of the conventions leading up to Federation. The purpose of the 2001 Corowa People’s Conference was to explore and harness the opinions of Australians to resolve the Head of State issue and put in place a process which will ensure an Australian in the top job, for example through a series of referendums, plebiscites, parliamentary inquiries and the like. The five proposals selected for debate by delegates addressed this issue from different perspectives and proposed different processes to achieve the common objective. Details of the proposals can be found on the Corowa website at www.corowaconference.com.au and click on Conference.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
