{"id":2065,"date":"2003-05-27T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2023-08-31T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:39:55","slug":"27-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"27 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>&nbsp;interviews 50 &#8220;prominent&#8221; people, 14 of whom are women (click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/womenrep.org\/articles\/14women.htm\">here<\/a>), and asks them how the Governor-General should be chosen and their choice for the job. Women nominated were Lowitja O&#8217;Donoghue (former chair of ATSIC); Mary Gaudron (recently retired High Court judge); Dawn Fraser (former Olympic champion swimmer); Marie Bashir (Governor of NSW); Elizabeth Evatt (former chief judge of the Family Court and UN adviser); Professor Fiona Stanley (child health researcher and social commentator from WA, Australian of the Year 2003); Jocelyn Newman (former Minister in the current federal government). Poet, Les Murray, comments that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t wish the job on anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Morning Herald&nbsp;interviews 50 &#8220;prominent&#8221; people, 14 of whom are women (click&nbsp;here), and asks them how the Governor-General should be chosen and their choice for the job. Women nominated were Lowitja O&#8217;Donoghue (former chair of ATSIC); Mary Gaudron (recently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24","wpcat-24-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","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=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}