{"id":1436,"date":"2014-04-16T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:52:58","slug":"womens-support-for-republic-on-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Support for Republic on Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published on the day that the royals arrive in town, the Fairfax-Nielsen snap poll shows 42 percent of women favour a republic (compared with 51 percent of men). In this poll, both results have shifted upwards from the late 1990s where women&#8217;s support was only in the mid 30 percents. The media chose to portray this otherwise saying that support was at a record low. The SMH describes this as a stunning repudiation (WfaAR begs to differ) demonstrating, &#8220;the failure of the republican movement to promote an abstract idea of national governance against the barrage of favourable royal coverage and a dominant celebrity culture&#8221;. The analysis is fair enough although we note that the Fairfax press was part of the unquestioning adulation of the royal visitors with not a dissenting journalistic voice to be heard. It was a neat Catch-22, were the journalists leading or following? The SMH also says that only 35 percent of poll respondents were in favour of knighthoods and 50 percent against so something doesn&#8217;t add up. [&#8220;As royals arrive, republic recedes&#8221; by Mark Kenny, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2014; Nielsen Poll, 10-12 April, 1400 respondents, +\/- 3 percent margin of error]. We consider the only data worth contemplating at present is that from the ABC&#8217;s 2013 Vote Compass data with 1.4m responses; snap polls seem to be fairly useless for predicting public support for proposals that require thought and judgement over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on the day that the royals arrive in town, the Fairfax-Nielsen snap poll shows 42 percent of women favour a republic (compared with 51 percent of men). In this poll, both results have shifted upwards from the late 1990s&#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-1436","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\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}