{"id":2817,"date":"2024-10-12T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:04:32","slug":"reko-rennie-on-a-head-of-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Reko Rennie Comments on a Head of State Visit\/Craig Foster on the 2024 Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quoted in an interview in The Saturday Paper: &#8220;When Queen Elizabeth II visited Melbourne, Rennie &#8211; who is Indigenous &#8211; was contacted by the Premier&#8217;s Department to ask if he would like to attend a ceremony and, as a notable artist, meet her. &#8216;I was just like, fuck no. I&#8217;ve got better things to do. I&#8217;m not going to waste my time hanging out with the symbol of colonialism. How ridiculous.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time around, recently departed ARM co-chair Craig Foster has made it public (exTwitter 5 October) that he had declined an invitation from the NSW Premier to attend a Community BBQ in the presence of His Majesty King Charles and Her Majesty Queen Camilla on 18 October in Western Sydney saying that he looks forward &#8220;to being &#8216;in the presence of&#8217; our first Aussie Head of State when we put our big pants on as a country&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[&#8220;From Rags to Riches&#8221;, an interview with Reko Rennie, by Anna Snoekstra, The Saturday Paper, 12 to 18 October 2024]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted in an interview in The Saturday Paper: &#8220;When Queen Elizabeth II visited Melbourne, Rennie &#8211; who is Indigenous &#8211; was contacted by the Premier&#8217;s Department to ask if he would like to attend a ceremony and, as a notable&#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-2817","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\/2817","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=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}