{"id":1235,"date":"2016-10-11T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:42:56","slug":"plebiscite-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Plebiscite Abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same-sex marriage plebiscite was effectively canned when the ALP (with The\u00a0Greens, Senator Hinch and the three\u00a0NXT senators)\u00a0decided not to vote for it. Thus, the Government does not have\u00a0enough support in the Senate to get the\u00a0enabling bill passed; so\u00a0end of plebiscite.\u00a0The final vote on the bill, defeated 29-33,\u00a0was taken in the Senate on 7 November after further debate in the upper house. However, it was an\u00a0educative exercise\u00a0for republicans\u00a0to\u00a0see\u00a0how legislation for a contemporary\u00a0plebiscite would be framed. Attention now turns to the\u00a0politically troubled,\u00a0extremely complex and\u00a0contentious Constitutional amendment\u00a0on Indigenous recognition, with the Republic lagging a\u00a0fair way\u00a0behind, even further than\u00a0recognition of local government in the Constitution. Things are getting a bit jittery about &#8220;the people&#8217;s choices&#8221;\u00a0after the\u00a0Brexit\u00a0result and with\u00a0the\u00a0possibility of a\u00a0US presidential\u00a0election debacle now imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same-sex marriage plebiscite was effectively canned when the ALP (with The\u00a0Greens, Senator Hinch and the three\u00a0NXT senators)\u00a0decided not to vote for it. Thus, the Government does not have\u00a0enough support in the Senate to get the\u00a0enabling bill passed; so\u00a0end of&#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-1235","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\/1235","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=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}