{"id":1680,"date":"2013-11-22T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:37:02","slug":"governor-general-alludes-to-republican-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Governor-General alludes to Republican Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quentin Bryce concludes her final Boyer lecture: &#8220;Advance Australia\u00a0Fair&#8221;,\u00a0by saying she hopes Australia might become a nation where &#8220;people are free to love and marry whom they choose. And where perhaps, my friends, one day, one young girl or boy may even grow up to be our nation&#8217;s first head of state&#8221;.\u00a0 The Governor-General is clear that she isn&#8217;t head of state. Although this statement\u00a0is seen as contentious in\u00a0conservative circles,\u00a0particularly with its muted\u00a0republic reference, it is refreshing to hear commentary about the future of our country\u00a0from\u00a0a\u00a0non-political source.\u00a0The Prime Minister did not object to the statements claiming that\u00a0the G-G\u00a0is free to express her views close to the end of her term.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Bryce concludes her final Boyer lecture: &#8220;Advance Australia\u00a0Fair&#8221;,\u00a0by saying she hopes Australia might become a nation where &#8220;people are free to love and marry whom they choose. And where perhaps, my friends, one day, one young girl or boy&#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-1680","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\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}