{"id":1598,"date":"2013-04-26T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:13:17","slug":"queensland-still-holding-out-on-uniform-royal-succession-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Queensland Still Holding Out on Uniform Royal Succession Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British bill cleared the House of Lords on 22 April but Queensland still wants to go it alone and pass its own legislation so that daughters cannot be displaced by younger sons in the line of succession, declining to refer its powers to the Australian Government to pass a law\u00a0on behalf of\u00a0all\u00a0six\u00a0Australian States and ensuring\u00a0the same\u00a0head of\u00a0government in all\u00a0parts\u00a0of the country.\u00a0 Even the\u00a0Queensland Parliamentary Committee considering the State&#8217;s bill queried the point of this move.\u00a0 Why are we bothering with this nonsense?\u00a0 Because\u00a0the federal\u00a0Constitution ties us to the British monarch as\u00a0head of\u00a0our\u00a0government.\u00a0 When laws relating to the succession over there are changed, then, over here, we have to make\u00a0complementary changes so that a) the British law can take effect and b)\u00a0we\u00a0have the same head of government as the other 15\u00a0realms.\u00a0The Australian Government says it will go ahead with\u00a0federal legislation\u00a0despite Queensland&#8217;s objections\u00a0and put it into parliament in May as time runs out before the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British bill cleared the House of Lords on 22 April but Queensland still wants to go it alone and pass its own legislation so that daughters cannot be displaced by younger sons in the line of succession, declining to&#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-1598","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\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}