{"id":1832,"date":"2011-10-18T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:30:05","slug":"on-the-eve-of-the-queen-of-australias-16th-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"On the Eve of the Queen of Australia&#8217;s 16th Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second royal visit this year is yet\u00a0another timely\u00a0reminder that the Queen of Australia, at the head of our\u00a0government,\u00a0does not live here and is not Australian.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0enables us to\u00a0reflect on our continuing,\u00a0deeply\u00a0ingrained ties to Britain and our\u00a0track record of\u00a0being very\u00a0slow to make the legislative\u00a0changes that will allow us\u00a0to\u00a0create the &#8220;Great Republic of the Southern Seas&#8221; as Louisa Lawson put it so long ago.\u00a0 The change\u00a0to a Republic,\u00a0government by\u00a0the people,\u00a0is long overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second royal visit this year is yet\u00a0another timely\u00a0reminder that the Queen of Australia, at the head of our\u00a0government,\u00a0does not live here and is not Australian.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0enables us to\u00a0reflect on our continuing,\u00a0deeply\u00a0ingrained ties to Britain and our\u00a0track record of\u00a0being very\u00a0slow to&#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-1832","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\/1832","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=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}