{"id":1802,"date":"2011-04-29T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2023-08-30T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:32:56","slug":"another-royal-wedding-is-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Another Royal Wedding is Wake-up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Australian barrister and author, Geoffrey Robertson, labels the royal wedding &#8216;a manifesto* for British republicans&#8217; in The Independent, it is nothing short of&nbsp;a wake-up call for Australian republicans as the British monarchy seeks to ensure its line of succession from Charles and William as&nbsp;future&nbsp;Kings of Australia, well into the 22nd century.&nbsp; This sexist, racist, hereditary arrangement, locked into&nbsp;our Constitution&nbsp;but completely&nbsp;out of step with&nbsp;our&nbsp;strong sense of equality free of class&nbsp;and the&nbsp;belief that we can govern ourselves free of our colonisers,&nbsp;is well past its Australian&nbsp;use-by date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* a new written constitution providing for an elected President (5 or 7 year terms) to represent the nation, provide wise counsel to the Government, inspire the people, open and, if necessary,&nbsp;close parliament; would include&nbsp;a small&nbsp;role for the Windsors that&nbsp;retains the trappings of the monarchy for tourism and public interest purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Australian barrister and author, Geoffrey Robertson, labels the royal wedding &#8216;a manifesto* for British republicans&#8217; in The Independent, it is nothing short of&nbsp;a wake-up call for Australian republicans as the British monarchy seeks to ensure its line of succession&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}