{"id":1664,"date":"2013-10-08T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:33:01","slug":"prince-harrys-visit-laid-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s Visit Laid Bare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really good article by Emma-Kate Symons in the AFR that exposes even more fawning over the royals on pointless and costly visits to Australia.&nbsp;Now, new PM Abbott ups the ante after Julia Gillard&#8217;s terrible efforts during the Queen&#8217;s visit in 2011 (speech&nbsp;of welcome in the Great Hall&nbsp;at Parliament House in Canberra)&nbsp;and that of Charles and Camilla for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012&nbsp;(&#8220;crimson thread of kinship&#8221; speech at the unveiling of&nbsp;Queen Elizabeth Terrace in the Parliamentary Zone). &nbsp;We&#8217;re seeing far too many royal visits: three in the last three years, and far too much inappropriate behaviour towards them by our Prime Ministers. Read the article&nbsp;below&nbsp;[Sycophantic Monarchism Unbecoming of Australian&nbsp;PM by Emma-Kate Symons, Australian Financial Review, 8 October 2013]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/p\/opinion\/sycophantic_monarchism_unbecoming_Vg7qNsH1yE16WHp8t7jE8I\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really good article by Emma-Kate Symons in the AFR that exposes even more fawning over the royals on pointless and costly visits to Australia.&nbsp;Now, new PM Abbott ups the ante after Julia Gillard&#8217;s terrible efforts during the Queen&#8217;s visit in&#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-1664","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\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}