{"id":1092,"date":"2017-06-03T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:06:35","slug":"reminder-about-persistence-in-federation-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Reminder about Persistence in Federation Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stroll through the rarely open Federation Gallery at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra reminds\u00a0WfaAR how long it took to negotiate and draft the first Australian federal\u00a0Constitution. Starting in 1890, it was considered by several constitutional conventions, the earliest ones also\u00a0involving New Zealand, then expected to become the seventh State of Australasia. For three years, nothing happened at all due to adverse economic conditions. The first time that the Constitution bill was put to (male) voters in NSW, it failed.\u00a0But the drafters\u00a0persisted under the guidance of some fine, passionate\u00a0political leaders.\u00a0 We should too but\u00a0are in\u00a0need\u00a0of gifted,\u00a0future-oriented\u00a0politicians to get us over the line. No sign of any at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stroll through the rarely open Federation Gallery at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra reminds\u00a0WfaAR how long it took to negotiate and draft the first Australian federal\u00a0Constitution. Starting in 1890, it was considered by several constitutional conventions, the&#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-1092","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\/1092","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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}