{"id":1214,"date":"2016-07-06T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:36:39","slug":"brexit-to-increase-ties-between-australia-and-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Brexit to Increase Ties between Australia and Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As things begin to shake out after the Brexit vote in the UK, WfaAR recalls Boris Johnson&#8217;s visit to Australia in 2014 during which he encouraged much closer ties between\u00a0the two\u00a0countries.\u00a0One\u00a0of his reasons was because we share the same head of state. We hope that our newly elected conservative government will not rush to\u00a0reinforce &#8220;British&#8221; connections with the UK on this basis. This will require constant vigilance in the next couple of years, including on the role\u00a0of the Commonwealth, if there is\u00a0tendency\u00a0to retain\u00a0or strengthen\u00a0these ties rather than\u00a0remove them as\u00a0essentially\u00a0implied by\u00a0the concept of\u00a0an\u00a0Australian\u00a0Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As things begin to shake out after the Brexit vote in the UK, WfaAR recalls Boris Johnson&#8217;s visit to Australia in 2014 during which he encouraged much closer ties between\u00a0the two\u00a0countries.\u00a0One\u00a0of his reasons was because we share the same head&#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-1214","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\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}