{"id":410,"date":"1999-08-07T20:16:00","date_gmt":"1999-08-07T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=410"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:51:34","slug":"7-august-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"7 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Democrat Senator, Aden Ridgeway, only the second indigenous Australian to be a member of the Federal Parliament has told the Prime Minister that he objects to the word &#8220;mateship&#8221; in the draft preamble to the Constitution because &#8220;it is not word that captures a sentiment that includes all Australians. Historical reflection sheds light on the fact that it is largely exclusive to Anglo-Celtic Australians, actually Anglo-Saxon Australians. It has historically been exclusive of others, even Catholics, but also Asians and, particularly, indigenous Australians.&#8221; WfaAR supports Senator Ridgeway&#8217;s comments which reflect our view to the Referendum Taskforce last April on the use of the word &#8220;mateship&#8221; in the draft preamble in addition to our objection to this word on gender grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Democrat Senator, Aden Ridgeway, only the second indigenous Australian to be a member of the Federal Parliament has told the Prime Minister that he objects to the word &#8220;mateship&#8221; in the draft preamble to the Constitution because &#8220;it is&#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-410","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\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}