{"id":1596,"date":"2013-04-22T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:12:50","slug":"abbotts-selection-criteria-for-governor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Abbott&#8217;s Selection Criteria for Governor-General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a backhanded swipe at the current Governor-General Quentin Bryce, Tony Abbott announces that &#8220;former military personnel and former judges by and large make the best vice regal representatives&#8221; (she is neither).\u00a0 This\u00a0was part of a spat with the Government over the appointment of the next GG.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you\u00a0Tony for giving us\u00a0that male profile\u00a0for a good\u00a0Governor-General.\u00a0\u00a0Both the PM and Abbott\u00a0say that\u00a0they will not change the arrangements for choosing\u00a0the next\u00a0GG due by March 2014.\u00a0 The\u00a0person can be chosen\u00a0solely by the Prime Minister\u00a0and\u00a0the recommendation must be accepted by\u00a0Queen of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a backhanded swipe at the current Governor-General Quentin Bryce, Tony Abbott announces that &#8220;former military personnel and former judges by and large make the best vice regal representatives&#8221; (she is neither).\u00a0 This\u00a0was part of a spat with the Government&#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-1596","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\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}