{"id":1933,"date":"2010-11-17T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:06:58","slug":"royal-engagement-hype-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Royal Engagement Hype Misses the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media coverage of the engagement of our next-but-one head of state\u00a0fails to mention what&#8217;s important\u00a0for Australia.\u00a0 In\u00a0 2010,109 years after Australia&#8217;s Federation, the betrothal of the heir to\u00a0the heir to the British throne\u00a0should be irrelevant to us,\u00a0of little more interest than the engagements and weddings of other European royals.\u00a0 Prince William, who is not Australian,\u00a0will eventually be\u00a0the head of our\u00a0government\u00a0unless\u00a0the current Constitution\u00a0is changed by the people, the majority of whom want Australia\u00a0to\u00a0be a\u00a0Republic with\u00a0an\u00a0Australian citizen as\u00a0head of state.\u00a0\u00a0That change needs to be made to move our democracy into the 21st century &#8211;\u00a0and sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media coverage of the engagement of our next-but-one head of state\u00a0fails to mention what&#8217;s important\u00a0for Australia.\u00a0 In\u00a0 2010,109 years after Australia&#8217;s Federation, the betrothal of the heir to\u00a0the heir to the British throne\u00a0should be irrelevant to us,\u00a0of little more interest&#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-1933","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\/1933","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=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}