{"id":2124,"date":"2008-03-30T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2023-08-31T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:39:08","slug":"letter-to-the-smh-about-talking-up-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the SMH about Talking Up the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WfaAR is disappointed by George Williams&#8217; article in the Sydney Morning Herald, &#8220;Frozen Continent&#8221; [SMH 29\/30 March 2008], in which he talks down the prospects of the Government&#8217;s list of items for constitutional change, particularly those of the Republic. Professor Williams, a constitutional lawyer, is also a member of ARM&#8217;s National Council. This is not good enough! All republican advocates should be positive about the Republic, all the time. WfaAR is very confident, in spite of the history, that a republic referendum held after at least one non-binding indicative vote to set the framework for the Republic (title of head of state; method for selecting head of state; what head of state is to be called etc) will get across the line easily. The people want to vote YES this time.&nbsp; Our letter was not published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d19_Letter_to_SMH_30_March.pdf\">Our letter<\/a>\u00a0[4KB,\u00a0pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WfaAR is disappointed by George Williams&#8217; article in the Sydney Morning Herald, &#8220;Frozen Continent&#8221; [SMH 29\/30 March 2008], in which he talks down the prospects of the Government&#8217;s list of items for constitutional change, particularly those of the Republic. Professor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25","wpcat-25-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}