15 December

There was controversy about the Conference Follow-up Group which was formed to take forward the outcome of the convention called the Royal Hotel Resolution. (Click here for the Resolution). The 11 member group contained only one woman who was included because she was Deputy Chair of the Convention. This issue has not been resolved despite representations from concerned republican women. The first meeting of the Follow-up Group which is dominated by male members of the establishment eg retired High Court judges, the proponents of the proposals etc, was in Melbourne on 22 February 2002. ARM wrote to the Corowa Conference chair about the lack of women on the Enabling Committee which is following up the conference resolution.