{"id":365,"date":"1999-10-02T20:16:00","date_gmt":"1999-10-02T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=365"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:44:58","slug":"2-october-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"2 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Older Canberrans are strong supporters of the republic and featured in&nbsp;The Canberra Times&nbsp;by reporter Emma McDonald are Mrs Dorothy Collings 77 and Miss Imelda Fleming 71, both active members of the local branch of the Australian Republican Movement.<br>&#8220;Mrs Collings was a teenager when it occurred to her that Australia was an entirely separate country from Britain. &#8216;I would hear people talking about taking a trip &#8216;home&#8217; to England and I thought &#8216;how curious, Australia is their home&#8217;.<br>Miss Fleming was a young student of political science at the Australian National University when she first considered the viability of a republic. She says that there is no more appropriate time to move to a republic than on the 100th anniversary of Federation. &#8216;It really is time for us to choose to have one of our own as Head of State.&#8217;<br>Mrs Collings says that older people have nothing to fear in the move, &#8216;We still have our history and many of us will still have strong ties to Britain.&#8217; &#8220;<br>Read&nbsp;what has influenced Imelda Fleming to support the republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older Canberrans are strong supporters of the republic and featured in&nbsp;The Canberra Times&nbsp;by reporter Emma McDonald are Mrs Dorothy Collings 77 and Miss Imelda Fleming 71, both active members of the local branch of the Australian Republican Movement.&#8220;Mrs Collings was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}