The new republican year gets off to a bright start on the very first day. With the release of 1994-95 Cabinet documents, ALP opposition leader during the lead-up to the 1999 republic referendum, Kim Beazley, is quizzed about the republic Cabinet submissions. In an interview on ABC’s 7.30, WfaAR heard the most commonsense ever spoken about acceptance of the Republic. Beazley said that for the republic vote to be successful, the proposition has to be both workable and popular. He added with a chuckle that we had managed the former but not the latter thus far. WfaAR comment: that’s where the challenge lies, simple as that. See also News Update of 3 April 2018.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
