{"id":1175,"date":"2016-01-25T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:21:35","slug":"republic-to-benefit-first-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Republic to Benefit First Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, is in favour of&nbsp;a renewed campaign for the Republic but says&nbsp;it&nbsp;must to&nbsp;recognise the sovereignty of&nbsp;the country&#8217;s&nbsp;First Peoples.&nbsp;&#8220;Any new system of government should correctly recognise that Aboriginal Australians initially owned the country. A republic should include more Indigenous&nbsp;representation in our&nbsp;parliaments accompanied by&nbsp;a set of rights equivalent to treaty rights enshrined in law so that Aboriginal people don&#8217;t have to&nbsp;keep fighting.&#8221; She also foreshadows that&nbsp;there&nbsp;could be an Aboriginal Head of State at some stage. [&#8220;An Australian Republic &#8216;could benefit Aborigines&#8217; &#8221; by Carolyn Conlan, Al Jazeera online, 25 January 2016]. Read the full&nbsp;interview below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/australian-republic-aborigines-160125053511153.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, is in favour of&nbsp;a renewed campaign for the Republic but says&nbsp;it&nbsp;must to&nbsp;recognise the sovereignty of&nbsp;the country&#8217;s&nbsp;First Peoples.&nbsp;&#8220;Any new system of government should correctly recognise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","wpcat-16-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}