{"id":1953,"date":"2009-04-22T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:45:23","slug":"no-action-on-republic-out-of-2020-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"No Action on Republic out of 2020 Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government announces action on nine recommendations out of nearly 1000 ideas put forward at the 2020 Summit held in April 2008. The strongly supported move to a republic was not one of them. On this subject now under the heading &#8220;Constitutional Reform&#8221;, the Government only commented that it recognises the priority placed on &#8220;constitutional reform&#8221; by the community and, further, that &#8220;it is committed to ongoing reform of our Constitution where appropriate and will draw on the input of the Summit in thinking about future possible proposals for constitutional change.&#8221; This vague language indicates that the republic is a very, very long way down the Government&#8217;s agenda and that we are not likely to see action anytime soon. WfaAR has written to the Prime Minister to protest the Government&#8217;s short-sightedness and suggest action is required even to get us out of the mire resulting from the global financial crisis and to create a modern forward-looking and cohesive society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government announces action on nine recommendations out of nearly 1000 ideas put forward at the 2020 Summit held in April 2008. The strongly supported move to a republic was not one of them. On this subject now under the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23","wpcat-23-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}