{"id":2266,"date":"2006-06-08T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:34:48","slug":"8-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"8 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen says that he would reluctantly support direct election if it helped Australia to break its outdated ties with the British monarchy which he describes as &#8220;incompatible with our independent status&#8221;. This is a change from his previous support for parliamentary selection of the Head of State. Sir Zelman also says in his memoirs that there needs to be &#8220;public education to promote understanding and discussion of the question: what kind of republic do we want?&#8221; (reported in The Australian). WfaAR is encouraged that this view is increasingly being raised in public discussion about the Australian Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen says that he would reluctantly support direct election if it helped Australia to break its outdated ties with the British monarchy which he describes as &#8220;incompatible with our independent status&#8221;. This is a change from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","wpcat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}