{"id":1264,"date":"2015-01-26T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:54:22","slug":"reaction-to-final-straw-knighthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to Final Straw Knighthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia Day finds WfaAR in La Repubblica Italia (a real republic with real Presidential elections) waking up to\u00a0the news that Prince Phillip had been made a Knight, the highest rank of Australian Knighthoods &#8211;\u00a0approved by the Queen of Australia herself\u00a0on the Prime Minister&#8217;s recommendation.\u00a0Without needing to mention that this contravened the guidelines for the new awards limited to\u00a0four per year\u00a0and is a conflict of interest for the Queen, the collective howl of despair and derision from the assembled group of Australians in the breakfast room\u00a0in Vico Equense could have been heard at Kirribilli. WfaAR fervently hopes it was. Rather interestingly, this widely-criticised\u00a0move precipitated a disastrous fall in the PM&#8217;s\u00a0poll\u00a0ratings\u00a0and,\u00a0within a fortnight,\u00a0he faced a\u00a0move\u00a0to remove him\u00a0from within his own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia Day finds WfaAR in La Repubblica Italia (a real republic with real Presidential elections) waking up to\u00a0the news that Prince Phillip had been made a Knight, the highest rank of Australian Knighthoods &#8211;\u00a0approved by the Queen of Australia herself\u00a0on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}