{"id":1574,"date":"2013-02-13T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:05:33","slug":"act-of-recognition-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Act of Recognition Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the failure of the proposal to hold a referendum to add Indigenous recognition to our Constitution, the Government succeeds in getting an act of recognition passed in the lower House on the fifth anniversity of the apology to the Stolen Generations.\u00a0 The new Act commits the federal\u00a0Government to hold the referendum within two years.\u00a0 As a first step, a Joint\u00a0Parliamentary Committee is being set up to consider the matter.\u00a0 But the Act does not\u00a0set out a process to get to a referendum or\u00a0propose a Constitutional Convention so that Indigenous peoples &#8211;\u00a0or anyone else &#8211;\u00a0can discuss the questions to be put,\u00a0criticisms made by WA Greens Senator, Rachel Siewert, when the bill was introduced in November 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the failure of the proposal to hold a referendum to add Indigenous recognition to our Constitution, the Government succeeds in getting an act of recognition passed in the lower House on the fifth anniversity of the apology to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","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=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}