{"id":2760,"date":"2024-06-23T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2024-07-30T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:02:57","slug":"national-identity-should-be-based-on-civic-belonging-not-ethnic-or-religious-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"National Identity Should be based on Civic Belonging not Ethnic or Religious Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discussions about our national identity, ever fluid in its post-colonial state, has bobbed up again as seeds of fledgling, religious based political parties comes to the fore ahead of the next federal election &#8211; some seats are said to be danger of losing sitting members due to this change in thinking about political representation. Julianne Schultz, a regular contributor on such matters and historian, thinks the timidity of our politicians in discussing national values has left a vacuum filled by nationalists focussed on the past rather than the future. WfaAR comment: this is important for any Republic debate when it ever gets to take place as it will be an important and significant expression of our future and of our identity. [&#8220;Australian needs a national identity based on civic belonging, not ethnic or religious exclusion&#8221; by Julianne Schultz, The Guardian online, 23 June 2024]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions about our national identity, ever fluid in its post-colonial state, has bobbed up again as seeds of fledgling, religious based political parties comes to the fore ahead of the next federal election &#8211; some seats are said to be&#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-2760","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\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}