{"id":1906,"date":"2010-08-12T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:26:17","slug":"julia-g-unplugged-on-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Julia G unplugged on the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prime Minister expanded on views about Australia becoming a republic&nbsp;in an interview with four journalists in Melbourne.&nbsp; There were two new lowlights: firstly that she sees herself as a participant in a future debate about the republic rather than a leader.&nbsp; Secondly, she states clearly that she does not support direct election of the President, even though it is supported by the people, because it &#8220;would be too much of a distortion to our current system of government.&#8221;&nbsp; The PM is stuck in 1999 &#8211; time to move forward Julia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentaustralia.net\/2010\/republic\/julia-gillards-position-on-the-republic\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister expanded on views about Australia becoming a republic&nbsp;in an interview with four journalists in Melbourne.&nbsp; There were two new lowlights: firstly that she sees herself as a participant in a future debate about the republic rather than&#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-1906","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\/1906","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=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}