{"id":2007,"date":"2023-01-23T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:16:31","slug":"why-its-time-for-a-blak-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Time for a Blak Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Lidia Thorpe gives an interview to Junkee on her beliefs about the future of Australia and a Republic, a Blak Republic. She says, &#8220;A Blak Republic is about self-determination&#8230;.It&#8217;s about First Nations&#8217; people in this country deciding our own destiny and being part of our own destiny&#8230;A Blak Republic would ensure that everybody in this country is looked after&#8230;..Through a treaty, we could have a republic&#8230;.It&#8217;s time to move away from the colonial project. I think the royals would be quite happy for us to cut ties and even have a treaty&#8221;. This is an interesting and thought provoking read&nbsp; that requires consideration. The full recording and transcript can be accessed by clicking the link below; [Why it&#8217;s Time for a Blak Republic&#8221; by Merryana Salem, Junkee online, 23 January 2023, recorded 22 December 2022]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junkee.com\/longform\/lidia-thrope-interview-blak-republic\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lidia Thorpe gives an interview to Junkee on her beliefs about the future of Australia and a Republic, a Blak Republic. She says, &#8220;A Blak Republic is about self-determination&#8230;.It&#8217;s about First Nations&#8217; people in this country deciding our own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","wpcat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}