{"id":1656,"date":"2013-09-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:31:33","slug":"final-pre-election-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Final Pre-election Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dame this and Lady (legal wife of Sir) that &#8211; will the Coalition reinstate knighthoods if they win on 7 September?&nbsp; We are sure they would find this another compelling argument against gay marriage!&nbsp; Very disappointing that the future of our constitutional monarchy and certain destiny as a Republic did not feature at all&nbsp;in what was presented to the electorate by the two major parties during the campaign&nbsp; Neither has a vision for the future or the courage to see it through.&nbsp; Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, reinstated the QC title for the State&#8217;s senior counsel on 7 June this&nbsp;year,&nbsp;with 70 of the 73 appointees taking up the offer. Meanwhile in New Zealand, the&nbsp;republic\/monarchy&nbsp;debate&nbsp;has had&nbsp;quite an&nbsp;airing in the last couple of months and a parliamentary committee is&nbsp;examining their royal succession bill &#8211; we haven&#8217;t&nbsp;got one of those either yet, coming up in next Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11120260\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d88_Letter-to-The-Canberra-Times-26-Aug-2013.pdf\">Read our letter to The Canberra Times about reinstating knighthoods<\/a>\u00a0[45KB,\u00a0pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame this and Lady (legal wife of Sir) that &#8211; will the Coalition reinstate knighthoods if they win on 7 September?&nbsp; We are sure they would find this another compelling argument against gay marriage!&nbsp; Very disappointing that the future of&#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-1656","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\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}