{"id":1878,"date":"2010-05-29T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:18:49","slug":"republic-about-national-identity-and-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Republic about National Identity and Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC newsreader and journalist, Virginia Haussegger, speaks at\u00a0the annual\u00a0ARM dinner in Canberra.\u00a0 Virginia links the push for a Republic with a desire for\u00a0national identity, particularly\u00a0among Anglo-Celtic Australians, comparing their lack of belonging with the strong cultural identity\u00a0of Indigenous people.\u00a0 She also commented that Australians still cling to the UK &#8211;\u00a0and hence to\u00a0the Queen &#8211;\u00a0as &#8220;home&#8221; and said that the current flag was tainted and a relic of\u00a0the past.\u00a0 She\u00a0thoughtfully analysed\u00a0what the Republic debate\u00a0has now become, demonstrating that it is\u00a0no longer\u00a0enough to say that you support a Republic, it&#8217;s\u00a0also\u00a0necessary to say why you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC newsreader and journalist, Virginia Haussegger, speaks at\u00a0the annual\u00a0ARM dinner in Canberra.\u00a0 Virginia links the push for a Republic with a desire for\u00a0national identity, particularly\u00a0among Anglo-Celtic Australians, comparing their lack of belonging with the strong cultural identity\u00a0of Indigenous people.\u00a0 She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","wpcat-22-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}