{"id":227,"date":"2020-06-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=227"},"modified":"2021-10-05T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:30:24","slug":"in-the-left-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"In the Left Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we didn&#8217;t exactly realise this or when it happened,&nbsp;historian Judith Brett neatly captures the political shift in Australia since the mid 1990s to create the binary political world&nbsp;manoeuvred&nbsp;by Prime Minister John Howard.&nbsp;She says that&nbsp;our Republic was characterised as an issue of Labor and the Greens, along with &#8220;affirmative action for women, multiculturism, racial inclusiveness, native title, Indigenous self-determination, Reconciliation along with acknowledging violence and injustice towards our First Peoples, increased environmental regulation and a commitment to internationalism.&#8221; So that neatly incapsulates it. Australian republicanism was lumped in with other so-called&nbsp;soft, non-essential, progressive&nbsp;causes&nbsp;and there we have stayed. Also clear is that the 1999 referendum was a practice run for what was to follow &#8211; and it worked a treat. [&#8220;The Coal Curse&#8221; by Judith Brett, Quarterly Essay Issue 78, June 2020, p52]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we didn&#8217;t exactly realise this or when it happened,&nbsp;historian Judith Brett neatly captures the political shift in Australia since the mid 1990s to create the binary political world&nbsp;manoeuvred&nbsp;by Prime Minister John Howard.&nbsp;She says that&nbsp;our Republic was characterised as an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}