{"id":1030,"date":"2018-11-08T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:49:21","slug":"honest-history-examines-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Honest History Examines Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Honest History team holds a one-day seminar in Canberra to mark 5 years in action. There were two bursts on the Republic. The first covered the present state of support in the country with a considerable pick-up noted among the 18-34s in discussion with the National Director of ARM while the afternoon session\u00a0was devoted to examining whether 65,000 years of history could have significance for the constitutional change, most importantly whether the\u00a0the myth of Anzac with its strong\u00a0ties to serving\u00a0the British\u00a0monarchy\u00a0is\u00a0hindering\u00a0progress towards a\u00a0Republic.\u00a0Most interesting were the comments made by former diplomat, Alison Broinowski, who noted that whenever Australia has had the opportunity to strike out and make independent foreign and\u00a0defence\u00a0policy since Federation, we have always chosen to stay firmly linked to a great power and the pattern is continuing\u00a0today.\u00a0This appears to have strong\u00a0parallels with our reluctance to take the plunge on a Republic and fully sever constitutional ties with the British\u00a0Crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honest History team holds a one-day seminar in Canberra to mark 5 years in action. There were two bursts on the Republic. The first covered the present state of support in the country with a considerable pick-up noted among&#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-1030","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\/1030","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=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}