{"id":2677,"date":"2023-10-17T16:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:23:20","slug":"a-sorrowful-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"A Sorrowful Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, National Convenor of Women for an Australian Republic, Sarah Brasch, was flying back to Canberra from Fiji, another former British colony, now a Republic still with its Commonwealth flag bearing the Union Jack &#8211; a matter of national pride for Fijians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She recalls, &#8220;Towards the end of the flight, the coastline of Australia came into view. I recognised my country but wished that I didn&#8217;t. I looked out the window, gripped with overwhelming sadness returning to Australia after having voted YES in the referendum, in hope, at the High Commission in Suva. It was a very emotional experience. The weight of the failure of the vote was upon me as I realised the prospect of a Republic was rapidly receding and that it was going to be years of hard work to achieve, much harder than after the 1999 referendum&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, National Convenor of Women for an Australian Republic, Sarah Brasch, was flying back to Canberra from Fiji, another former British colony, now a Republic still with its Commonwealth flag bearing the Union Jack &#8211; a matter of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","wpcat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}