{"id":2165,"date":"2008-09-05T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:25:29","slug":"more-required-than-a-female-gg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"More Required than a Female GG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commenting on Quentin Bryce&#8217;s inauguration as the Governor-General on a cold day in Canberra, the Prime Minister said on Sunrise (Ch 7 morning TV) that &#8220;if a little girl from a country town in Queensland&#8230;.can become Governor-General, then girls can do anything&#8221;. An familiar feminist refrain and eerily reminiscent of a republican line &#8211; and not a terribly successful one &#8211; run during the 1999 referendum campaign. He then almost immediately equivocated about when the Government intended to consult the people about becoming a republic. WfaAR reminds the PM that appointing a woman as the Queen&#8217;s representative does not in any way accommodate the majority&#8217;s desire to be a Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on Quentin Bryce&#8217;s inauguration as the Governor-General on a cold day in Canberra, the Prime Minister said on Sunrise (Ch 7 morning TV) that &#8220;if a little girl from a country town in Queensland&#8230;.can become Governor-General, then girls can&#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-2165","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\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}