{"id":429,"date":"1999-06-23T20:16:00","date_gmt":"1999-06-23T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=429"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:54:21","slug":"23-june-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"23 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The High Court finds that Australia is effectively a republic and independent of Britain since the passing of the&nbsp;Australia Act&nbsp;in 1986. The Court was handing down its judgement in the challenge to Senator elect Heather Hill (One Nation Queensland) who had dual Australian\/British citizenship at the time of her election in October 1998. Upholding the appeal, the Court found that Britain was a &#8220;foreign&#8221; power. Heather Hill will be replaced by a male senator from Mareeba in Far North Queensland.&nbsp; Afterwards, One Nation national President, Pauline Hanson, questioned the need for the referendum on the republic on 6 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court finds that Australia is effectively a republic and independent of Britain since the passing of the&nbsp;Australia Act&nbsp;in 1986. The Court was handing down its judgement in the challenge to Senator elect Heather Hill (One Nation Queensland) who&#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-429","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\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}