{"id":1179,"date":"2016-01-29T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:23:15","slug":"we-should-become-a-republic-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"We Should Become a Republic Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s&nbsp;Rosemary Walters&#8217;&nbsp;opinion after a flurry of noise&nbsp;put the Republic&nbsp;on the front pages&nbsp;for a couple of days. So, she wrote to The Canberra Times. Her published&nbsp;letter followed that of a man&nbsp;&#8211; with top billing&nbsp;and the headline&nbsp;&#8211; who said that the clamour&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Republic marked the&nbsp;end of the news&nbsp;silly&nbsp;season and was a distraction from discussing more pressing issues that have far higher priority eg the&nbsp;economy and federal government&nbsp;stability (?)&nbsp;although he did suggest that enthusiasts (&#8216;ersatz nationalists&#8217;)&nbsp;could put their energies into changing&nbsp;the flag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/womenrep.org\/documents\/d95_Letter%20to%20the%20Editor%20CTimes%2029%20Jan%202016.pdf\">Read Rosemary&#8217;s letter here<\/a>&nbsp;[45KB,&nbsp;pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s&nbsp;Rosemary Walters&#8217;&nbsp;opinion after a flurry of noise&nbsp;put the Republic&nbsp;on the front pages&nbsp;for a couple of days. So, she wrote to The Canberra Times. Her published&nbsp;letter followed that of a man&nbsp;&#8211; with top billing&nbsp;and the headline&nbsp;&#8211; who said that the clamour&nbsp;for&#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-1179","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\/1179","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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}