{"id":629,"date":"2022-01-17T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=629"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:08:00","slug":"arms-shift-to-direct-election-is-long-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"ARM&#8217;s Shift to Direct Election is Long Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WfaAR writes to The Canberra Times to add to the early commentary on ARM&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; model for the Republic. We applaud ARM&#8217;s move but think it&#8217;s been rather too long coming as most others had moved on after the 1999 referendum. It is, however, a big shift for ARM, the bastion of the 2\/3 parliamentary vote model, probably for one nominee or a small number put forward by the Prime Minister, a minimal model indeed and one that largely bypasses the people as they have no direct involvement in the result. Read our letter on the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/d119_Letter-to-The-Canberra-Times-17-Jan-2022.pdf\">WfaAR Letter to The Canberra Times 17 Jan 2022<\/a>\u00a0[52KB,\u00a0pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WfaAR writes to The Canberra Times to add to the early commentary on ARM&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; model for the Republic. We applaud ARM&#8217;s move but think it&#8217;s been rather too long coming as most others had moved on after the 1999&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","wpcat-9-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}