{"id":1904,"date":"2010-08-09T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:25:52","slug":"referendum-planned-but-not-for-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"Referendum Planned but Not for Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, announces that the next\u00a0Labor Government would hold a referendum to introduce constitutional recognition of our First Peoples.\u00a0 To do this, the Government will seek bipartisan support from the Opposition. No timing for the vote was announced but this would be a good time to also run a plebiscite on the Republic.\u00a0 WfaAR noted that this statement was accompanied by the now well-worn and often repeated\u00a0ALP warning that if this change is to be\u00a0made to the Constitution, &#8220;it needs to have very broad community support&#8221; to quote Minister Macklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, announces that the next\u00a0Labor Government would hold a referendum to introduce constitutional recognition of our First Peoples.\u00a0 To do this, the Government will seek bipartisan support from the Opposition. No timing for the vote was&#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-1904","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\/1904","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=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}