{"id":595,"date":"2020-03-23T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=595"},"modified":"2023-04-04T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:54:33","slug":"covid-19-shutdown-silences-constitutional-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Shutdown Silences Constitutional Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the country began to slowdown and shutdown\u00a0with strict\u00a0pandemic prevention measures in place nationally, it\u00a0is clear that public health and immediate economic issues would be the focus for\u00a0at least the next 6\u00a0months. Non-survival\u00a0topics like Indigenous Recognition and\u00a0the Republic\u00a0dropped instantly\u00a0from public discourse and the media\u00a0(see also\u00a0 News Item of 6 June 2020). The only\u00a0vague reminder about the Republic was the publication of Malcolm Turnbull&#8217;s &#8220;A Bigger Picture&#8221; in mid April\u00a0but that aspect of the book gained no attention.\u00a0The\u00a0time\u00a0of\u00a0major threat from the\u00a0pandemic\u00a0was barren territory for constitutional matters as if they didn&#8217;t exist or belonged to a\u00a0long-forgotten past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country began to slowdown and shutdown\u00a0with strict\u00a0pandemic prevention measures in place nationally, it\u00a0is clear that public health and immediate economic issues would be the focus for\u00a0at least the next 6\u00a0months. Non-survival\u00a0topics like Indigenous Recognition and\u00a0the Republic\u00a0dropped instantly\u00a0from public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}