{"id":1010,"date":"2018-06-11T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:44:05","slug":"shame-on-prominent-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Shame on Prominent Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Queen&#8217;s Birthday honours list &#8211; again &#8211;\u00a0has some striking examples of well-known republicans accepting\u00a0essentially\u00a0imperial\u00a0honours, a contradiction if ever there was one. This year, it is Jenny Kee, a founding member of ARM no less, and author Kate Grenville who had to defend herself in print (see Fairfax) and former\u00a0federal Greens leader, Christine Milne.\u00a0Last year, it was Cate Blanchett and Alan Joyce, the Irish-born CEO of Qantas. Until well-recognised and establishment republicans make it public that they have refused such awards until Australia is a Republic, as Jocelynne Scutt famously did in the late 1990s, there is not much hope for the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s Birthday honours list &#8211; again &#8211;\u00a0has some striking examples of well-known republicans accepting\u00a0essentially\u00a0imperial\u00a0honours, a contradiction if ever there was one. This year, it is Jenny Kee, a founding member of ARM no less, and author Kate Grenville who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}