{"id":105,"date":"2021-10-01T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2021-10-01T22:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:11:24","slug":"susanne-martains-letter-to-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?page_id=105","title":{"rendered":"Susanne Martain&#8217;s Letter to the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Susanne Martain\u2019s Letter to the Queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her Royal Highness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Queen of England<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/vbk\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/vbk\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Madam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RE Australian Referendum November 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I write imploring you to make a statement to the people of Australia regarding the upcoming referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some immigrants are extremely concerned that they will breach an oath swearing allegiance to you made at their citizenship ceremonies. Some even believe that in voting yes to a republic in Australia, they will be committing treason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please issue a public statement to these anxious Australians and put their minds at rest, as I believe that you would not endorse the notion of the referendum question being treasonous, nor support an informal vote to avoid breaching a compulsory oath made during a citizenship ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours sincerely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Susanne Martain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eora Country, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 October 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susanne Martain\u2019s Letter to the Queen Her Royal Highness The Queen of England http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/vbk\/index.htm Dear Madam RE Australian Referendum November 1999 I write imploring you to make a statement to the people of Australia regarding the upcoming referendum. Some immigrants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}