{"id":1165,"date":"2017-12-06T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:26:28","slug":"wfaar-talks-to-matt-thistlethwaite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"WfaAR talks to Matt Thistlethwaite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were invited to talk&nbsp;to the&nbsp;ALP&#8217;s new&nbsp;Shadow Minister for an Australian Head of State to add the women&#8217;s&nbsp;perspective to Labor&#8217;s first concrete steps towards voting for a Republic (see also News Item for 24 October 2017 about Matt&#8217;s appointment).&nbsp;The discussion was not only wide ranging but we were pleased to note genuine enthusiasm for the task and a keenness to get going.&nbsp;We talked about ways to address women&#8217;s consistently low support for&nbsp;Republic and identified some of the possible points of hesitancy. We also put forward a suite of possible questions for any plebiscite especially if there is only one preliminary vote before the necessary referendum and stressed the need to ask more than one YES\/NO question with a minimum of two questions (click on link for more info). This was encouraging and we look forward to working further with Matt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/d101_WfaAR-Plebiscite-Questions-6-Dec-2017.pdf\">Plebiscite Questions<\/a>\u00a0[45KB,\u00a0pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were invited to talk&nbsp;to the&nbsp;ALP&#8217;s new&nbsp;Shadow Minister for an Australian Head of State to add the women&#8217;s&nbsp;perspective to Labor&#8217;s first concrete steps towards voting for a Republic (see also News Item for 24 October 2017 about Matt&#8217;s appointment).&nbsp;The discussion&#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-1165","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\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}