{"id":1728,"date":"2012-06-11T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:16:57","slug":"the-british-monarch-and-australia-in-the-cold-light-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"The British monarch and Australia in the cold light of day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the Diamond Jubilee events in\u00a0London\u00a0and yet\u00a0another Queen&#8217;s Birthday holiday weekend here, it seems as good a\u00a0time as\u00a0any\u00a0to review the role of the British monarch in Australia. Firstly, does she advise, warn or counsel? (Bagehot).\u00a0 Secondly, does she &#8220;perform the ceremonial and official duties of Head of State, including representing Britain to the world; provide a focus for national identity and unity; provide stability and continuity in times of change; recognise achievement and excellence; encourage public and voluntary service&#8221; in addition to holding a large number of garden parties and walkabouts (The role of the sovereign\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/\">www.royal.gov.uk<\/a>).\u00a0 For\u00a0Australia, it is clear that she does not do these things although she may do some of them if she is in the country, 16 visits in 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Diamond Jubilee events in\u00a0London\u00a0and yet\u00a0another Queen&#8217;s Birthday holiday weekend here, it seems as good a\u00a0time as\u00a0any\u00a0to review the role of the British monarch in Australia. Firstly, does she advise, warn or counsel? (Bagehot).\u00a0 Secondly, does she &#8220;perform the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}