{"id":2215,"date":"2007-04-13T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:20:03","slug":"13-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"13 April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At an investiture in Canberra to receive a Companion of the Order of Australia, prominent Perth businesswoman and arts patron, Janet Holmes a Court, said Australians could be ready for another referendum on the Republic: &#8221; We have our own national anthem, we have got our own High Court, we&#8217;ve got our own honours system, we just have an attachment to the Queen and the monarchy &#8211; and I am a huge fan of the Queen &#8211; and many Australians think it&#8217;s time we severed that tie and become totally independent. I think we are approaching a time when we can think about it again. I think there are plenty of people who haven&#8217;t stopped thinking about it. We need to work out a model that is acceptable to all Australians.&#8221; Mrs Holmes a Court campaigned for the Republic during the 1999 referendum and was an elected ARM delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1998. [&#8220;Republic: many say it&#8217;s time&#8221; by Kate Hannon and Claire Low, The Canberra Times, 14 April 2007]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an investiture in Canberra to receive a Companion of the Order of Australia, prominent Perth businesswoman and arts patron, Janet Holmes a Court, said Australians could be ready for another referendum on the Republic: &#8221; We have 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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}