{"id":1040,"date":"2017-01-26T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:52:34","slug":"australia-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Australia Day&#8230;..again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia Day used to be an occasion on which there was much soul-searching about\u00a0national identity and good for an airing about the Republic. This year, ARM launches a new branding as the &#8220;Australian Republic Movement&#8221; rather than the &#8220;Australian Republic<strong>an<\/strong>\u00a0Movement&#8221; no doubt to try and combat associations with the Republic<strong>an<\/strong>\u00a0now in the US\u00a0White House. Along with this comes a new logo in traditional Republic(an) colours of green and gold featuring\u00a0a rather phallic looking arrow, on a very low trajectory, hanging on to Tasmania for grim death. At least, the Southern Cross has been ditched. There was no suggestion that under this moniker, ARM has ditched its company structure behind the scenes or was attempting to act as an umbrella organisation for the various campaigning groups that make up\u00a0<em>the republic movement.<\/em>\u00a0ARM also\u00a0launched a new TV ad that\u00a0was overshadowed by the controversy over the 2017 Australia Day lamb ad, featuring a small group of\u00a0Indigenous people having a barbeque on a deserted beach that filled with foreigners. It was meant to be funny\u00a0and it was (and similar to what you would see on Black Comedy)\u00a0but perhaps not so much for the First Peoples. To add to the noise, the\u00a0&#8220;Change the Date&#8221; campaign seems to be taking off quickly and gaining acceptance in both theory and practice so no wonder the Republic didn&#8217;t get much of a look-in this year, or is Anzac Day shifting to Australia Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia Day used to be an occasion on which there was much soul-searching about\u00a0national identity and good for an airing about the Republic. This year, ARM launches a new branding as the &#8220;Australian Republic Movement&#8221; rather than the &#8220;Australian Republican\u00a0Movement&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","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=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}