{"id":1624,"date":"2013-06-12T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:21:57","slug":"female-opinion-on-constitutional-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Female Opinion on Constitutional Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathryn Kelly of Chifley ACT writes to The Canberra Times about finding a third way to solve the problem of selecting a head of state&nbsp;to meet the&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;of both&nbsp;parliamentary appointment and direct&nbsp;election supporters.&nbsp; While WfaAR doesn&#8217;t&nbsp; think this proposal will suit direct electionists because it isn&#8217;t direct enough&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp;it&nbsp;takes&nbsp;selection away from the people who will only&nbsp;endorse the choice of the parliament &#8211;&nbsp;we are pleased to see a woman speaking in the public domain about the republic and constitutional change, and making suggestions for solving the head of state selection impasse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d80_Kathryn-Kelly-letter-CTimes.pdf\">Kathryn&#8217;s letter here<\/a>\u00a0[48KB,\u00a0pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Kelly of Chifley ACT writes to The Canberra Times about finding a third way to solve the problem of selecting a head of state&nbsp;to meet the&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;of both&nbsp;parliamentary appointment and direct&nbsp;election supporters.&nbsp; While WfaAR doesn&#8217;t&nbsp; think this proposal will suit&#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-1624","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\/1624","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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}