{"id":1662,"date":"2013-10-04T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:32:33","slug":"british-royals-still-presiding-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"British Royals still Presiding over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prince Harry&#8217;s presence at the International Fleet Review only\u00a0shows we have\u00a0come full circle\u00a0since 1988\u00a0when the current republican\u00a0campaign kicked off as Malcolm Turnbull observed Charles and\u00a0Diana officially overseeing the Bicentennary celebrations.\u00a0Harry\u00a0stood alongside the Governor-General who already\u00a0does\u00a0the job representing\u00a0the Queen of Australia. PM Abbott dared\u00a0to say that we all felt like monarchists before he\u00a0swooshed\u00a0Harry off on\u00a0a\u00a0VIP Fleet\u00a0jet to Perth.\u00a0No, we don&#8217;t.\u00a0And when are we going to stop fawning over the British royal family? Pointless regal visits\u00a0initiated by the Federal\u00a0Government, paid for by Australian taxes, are a reminder of where we stand in our\u00a0quest to become\u00a0The Great Republic\u00a0of the Southern Seas\u00a0as is the fact\u00a0that we now get\u00a0No\u00a04\u00a0in line to\u00a0our throne to do the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry&#8217;s presence at the International Fleet Review only\u00a0shows we have\u00a0come full circle\u00a0since 1988\u00a0when the current republican\u00a0campaign kicked off as Malcolm Turnbull observed Charles and\u00a0Diana officially overseeing the Bicentennary celebrations.\u00a0Harry\u00a0stood alongside the Governor-General who already\u00a0does\u00a0the job representing\u00a0the Queen of Australia&#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-1662","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\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}