{"id":1734,"date":"2012-07-27T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:18:26","slug":"the-olympics-and-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"The Olympics and the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Olympics provide yet another perspective on the Australian Republic.\u00a0 Once again\u00a0there was\u00a0the\u00a0enervating spectacle of the unremarkable flag, hardly distinguishable from that\u00a0of New Zealand,\u00a0alongside green and gold boxing kangaroos.\u00a0The medal ceremony for first (UK), second (Australia) and third (New Zealand) in one of the women&#8217;s rowing events looked like the mother country and two colonies.\u00a0 Boxer Damien Hooper was a champion in all senses, opting for an\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0T shirt\u00a0to express\u00a0his opposition to the Union Jack on our flag.\u00a0 He also commented, &#8220;I made a fan page and six hours later\u00a0 had 10,000 likes on it.\u00a0 I had all that support flowing in, non-Aboriginal people supporting me as well&#8230;.we are two cultures living in one nation.\u00a0 We get along thesedays.&#8221;\u00a0 Over at the Channel 9 studio, Leila McKinnon could hardly contain her excitement in getting to\u00a0talk to\u00a0Princes William and Harry leading to a very dull interview indeed.\u00a0 Prince William thought that Australia should join with other Commonwealth countries to beat the Americans.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an\u00a0odd\u00a0notion\u00a0for Australians. \u00a0We only have one objective in sport and that is to whip the Poms, in which objective\u00a0we failed miserably\u00a0on this occasion&#8230;..next time&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0meanwhile, we should whip them with\u00a0our Constitution and make ourselves a Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics provide yet another perspective on the Australian Republic.\u00a0 Once again\u00a0there was\u00a0the\u00a0enervating spectacle of the unremarkable flag, hardly distinguishable from that\u00a0of New Zealand,\u00a0alongside green and gold boxing kangaroos.\u00a0The medal ceremony for first (UK), second (Australia) and third (New Zealand)&#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-1734","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\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}