{"id":1130,"date":"2017-09-21T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:16:13","slug":"vale-evelyn-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Vale Evelyn Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indigenous activist, Evelyn Scott dies. Her distinguished career and profile as an educator and social justice campaigner for equal rights&nbsp;made her a candidate at the top of&nbsp;WfaAR&#8217;s list for Head of State in any Australian Republic. Dr Scott was a unfailing proponent of Indigenous rights, a&nbsp;pioneering&nbsp;administrator for Indigenous self-determination, protector of the Great Barrier Reef and, later, Chair of the Council&nbsp;for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1997-2000.&nbsp;She was also&nbsp;closely associated with&nbsp;the successful&nbsp;1967 referendum. WfaAR recalls sitting next to her,&nbsp;in her trade mark black hat, during one session at the 1997 Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne. [&#8220;Dr Evelyn Scott, Indigenous rights activist and &#8216;trailblazer&#8217; dies aged 81&#8221; by Miriam Corowa and Kirsty Nancarrow, ABC online, 21 September 2017]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-09-21\/dr-evelyn-scott-indigenous-rights-campaigner-dies-aged-81\/8967192\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous activist, Evelyn Scott dies. Her distinguished career and profile as an educator and social justice campaigner for equal rights&nbsp;made her a candidate at the top of&nbsp;WfaAR&#8217;s list for Head of State in any Australian Republic. Dr Scott was 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-1130","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\/1130","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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}