{"id":2864,"date":"2024-08-04T22:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:57:36","slug":"republic-needs-work-in-federal-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"Republic Needs Work in Federal Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sage words from former ARM National Council Member and The Palace Letters author, Professor Jenny Hocking discussing the dumping of the Republic portfolio. She says, &#8220;Australia is still in some very significant ways tethered to what is an arcane constitutional monarchy retained by birthright.&#8221; She added that she &#8220;would like to see the ministry reinstated. I think it&#8217;s a great pity that the difficulty of passing referenda has meant that we tend to give up on them&#8230;..You can have a minister or minister assisting to take the idea of a Republic forward because it is something that needs to be worked through, not just within the general population, but also within the parliament.&#8221; Hear, hear. [Quoted along with ARM and federal Labor MP Dr Mike Freelander in &#8220;Republic movement comfortable it has government&#8217;s support despite ditching of portfolio&#8221; by Krishani Dhanji and Oliver Gordon, ABC online, 4 August 2024]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage words from former ARM National Council Member and The Palace Letters author, Professor Jenny Hocking discussing the dumping of the Republic portfolio. She says, &#8220;Australia is still in some very significant ways tethered to what is an arcane constitutional&#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-2864","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\/2864","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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}