{"id":1668,"date":"2013-10-15T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:34:04","slug":"everyones-talking-about-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s Talking about Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly, &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; is in vogue. PM Abbott is talking about Australia&#8217;s sovereignty, Indonesia&#8217;s sovereignty and we have Operation Sovereign Borders in place to keep out\u00a0people seeking asylum by boat.\u00a0 So Australia is making it pretty clear that we are our own country, making our own decisions, that\u00a0we are supreme over our land\u00a0by force of our\u00a0own\u00a0power\/s.\u00a0 Music to the ears of republicans &#8211; for why then do we admit a foreign power (the UK) to our own government, indeed to head it up? &#8211; and to our Indigenous Peoples who have campaigned for recognition of their sovereignty for years.\u00a0 We should talk about this much more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; is in vogue. PM Abbott is talking about Australia&#8217;s sovereignty, Indonesia&#8217;s sovereignty and we have Operation Sovereign Borders in place to keep out\u00a0people seeking asylum by boat.\u00a0 So Australia is making it pretty clear that we are our&#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-1668","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\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}