{"id":1424,"date":"2014-03-31T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:49:56","slug":"awards-with-fancy-titles-dont-sit-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Awards with Fancy Titles don&#8217;t sit well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amanda Vanstone, former Howard government Minister and its best-known republican, writes in the SMH that Howard was right to label the Prime Minister&#8217;s new knights and dames awards as &#8220;anachronistic&#8221;. She says she can &#8220;find none among her Liberal mates who think it is other than really weird&#8221; and goes on to write that Abbott indulged himself by flying solo and now is stuck with it. She concludes that &#8220;awards with fancy titles just don&#8217;t sit well with todays Australia&#8221;. Click on the link below to read all that she had to say. [&#8220;Why Tony Abbott&#8217;s royal finger on knights and dames is wrong&#8221; by Amanda Vanstone, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March 2014]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/comment\/why-tony-abbotts-royal-finger-on-knights-and-dames-is-wrong-20140329-zqog7.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Vanstone, former Howard government Minister and its best-known republican, writes in the SMH that Howard was right to label the Prime Minister&#8217;s new knights and dames awards as &#8220;anachronistic&#8221;. She says she can &#8220;find none among her Liberal mates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}