{"id":1684,"date":"2013-11-26T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:38:12","slug":"governor-general-shows-what-head-of-state-would-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Governor-General shows what Head of State would do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Convenor, Sarah Brasch&#8217;s letter to The Canberra Times: &#8220;Good on the Governor-General.\u00a0 At the end of her final Boyer lecture, Quentin Bryce doesn&#8217;t call for a republic but foresees the progressive nation we all recognise.\u00a0 She holds up a mirror to ourselves thus demonstrating one important role of a head of state.\u00a0 The currently elected President of Ireland is a good example to follow in this respect.\u00a0 By cutting away the choking vine, she lets the sun in so that the plants below can flourish and bloom.&#8221; Published on 26 November with top billing on the Letters page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Convenor, Sarah Brasch&#8217;s letter to The Canberra Times: &#8220;Good on the Governor-General.\u00a0 At the end of her final Boyer lecture, Quentin Bryce doesn&#8217;t call for a republic but foresees the progressive nation we all recognise.\u00a0 She holds up a&#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-1684","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\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}