{"id":135,"date":"2021-10-01T21:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2021-10-01T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:20:14","slug":"from-the-women-into-politics-symposium-at-lismore-17-18-april-1999","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"From the Women Into Politics Symposium at Lismore, 17-18 April 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women attending the Lismore symposium on the constitutional referendum did not approve of the Prime Minister&#8217;s version of the preamble and voted as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That this Women Into Politics North Coast NSW symposium rejects the Prime Minister&#8217;s draft Preamble as inappropriate for our nation and our times for a number of reasons, but especially because it does not acknowledge the equality of men and women, the word &#8216;mateship&#8217; is unacceptable and it does not acknowledge the custodianship of the land by indigenous people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The symposium went on to adopt what they considered a concise and suitable preamble as drafted by Marian Sawer (see Preamble section), which they proposed to send to the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and their local MPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women attending the Lismore symposium on the constitutional referendum did not approve of the Prime Minister&#8217;s version of the preamble and voted as follows: &#8220;That this Women Into Politics North Coast NSW symposium rejects the Prime Minister&#8217;s draft Preamble as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"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=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}