{"id":1116,"date":"2017-08-17T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:12:41","slug":"act-lining-up-for-republic-day-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"ACT Lining Up for Republic Day National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACT will&nbsp;have a new public holiday in 2018 for Reconciliation Day.&nbsp;Greens member of the Legislative Assembly, Caroline Le Couteur, welcomed the new&nbsp;day-off but also called on the Assembly to change the date of Australia Day as it marked a day of colonisation and detriment to our First Peoples. The responsible Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith, had told&nbsp;the Assembly&nbsp;in February&nbsp;&#8220;How about we pick a date that suits us all for a national celebration, move Australia Day to that date and then make sure we become a republic on that date?&#8221;.&nbsp;WfaAR couldn&#8217;t&nbsp;agree more&nbsp;and nominates 1 September, National Wattle Day for our republic holiday and new national day.&nbsp;[&#8220;This year will be the last Family and Community Public Holiday&#8221; by Katie Burgess, The Canberra Times online, 17 August 2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT will&nbsp;have a new public holiday in 2018 for Reconciliation Day.&nbsp;Greens member of the Legislative Assembly, Caroline Le Couteur, welcomed the new&nbsp;day-off but also called on the Assembly to change the date of Australia Day as it marked a&#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-1116","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\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}