{"id":1352,"date":"2015-08-26T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:19:19","slug":"women-did-get-a-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Women Did Get a Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter FitzSimons, minus\u00a0the trademark red bandanna,\u00a0gives his first address as ARM chair at the National Press Club in Canberra. Some commentators felt his speech was light on as no women were mentioned. But three were: Dolly Parton, Senator Katy Gallagher and spouse\u00a0Lisa Wilkinson, a well-known\u00a0television presenter, who was able to explain to him why &#8216;Diana&#8217; was\u00a0<em>the story\u00a0<\/em>of the late\u00a020th century as she took on the staid\u00a0court\u00a0and\u00a0how Kate, George and Charlotte now\u00a0follow in her wake\u00a0explaining\u00a0the\u00a0appeal of the British &#8211; and Australian &#8211;\u00a0royal family. Some women present thought it useful that\u00a0FitzSimons seeks the counsel of women to explain things he does not understand. WfaAR noted that even that male anthem\u00a0&#8220;Beneath the Southern Cross we stand&#8221; was quoted in\u00a0some parts of the speech that\u00a0ressembled\u00a0a half-time\u00a0rouse-up\u00a0by a losing coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter FitzSimons, minus\u00a0the trademark red bandanna,\u00a0gives his first address as ARM chair at the National Press Club in Canberra. Some commentators felt his speech was light on as no women were mentioned. But three were: Dolly Parton, Senator Katy Gallagher&#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-1352","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\/1352","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=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}