{"id":125,"date":"2021-10-01T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2021-10-01T22:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:17:33","slug":"rachel-massey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?page_id=125","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Massey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel Massey will be a week short of 18 on 6 November 1999 and, therefore, doesn&#8217;t get to vote. This is what she had to say to women who said that they intended to vote informal at the referendum on the republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have always believed that voting informally essentially gives a vote to the case you want least, as you have not voted against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, why throw away your right to have a say and a vote? Women fought hard to make it possible to have a say in matters such as this. Unless, of course, you don&#8217;t believe that your opinion should be counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just for the record, I am six days too young to vote in this referendum. However, I will be doing what I can to advocate the YES case, as I believe that it is the right way for Australia to go (and I believe that this model is far better than direct election). So, by handing out &#8220;how to vote&#8221; cards etc, I will do what I can to help the republican cause, even though I don&#8217;t have an actual vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please, look at the issue, make an educated decision and vote accordingly &#8211; but don&#8217;t waste your vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Massey will be a week short of 18 on 6 November 1999 and, therefore, doesn&#8217;t get to vote. This is what she had to say to women who said that they intended to vote informal at the referendum on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"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=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}