{"id":667,"date":"2022-06-07T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=667"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:19:00","slug":"small-steps-to-progress-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Small Steps to Progress the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, over at The Australian, Gaynor Goodbody, Thurgoona, NSW says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Now that we have an Assistant Minister for the Republic in Matt Thistlethwaite, perhaps we can take incremental steps in that direction before any referendum, which will be a while away yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suggest that we first withdraw from the Commonwealth &#8211; an anachronism whose time is past. Even prior to that, we should withdraw from participation in, or hosting of, the Commonwealth Games, widely regarded as a pointless blip between Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Irish republic is often held up as a working, practical model that we could emulate, and indeed, Ireland has not suffered from the absence of Commonwealth membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few small simple steps will set us on the right path and give us confidence to achieve the ultimate goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memo Matt Thistlethwaite: some good ideas here for progress in stages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, over at The Australian, Gaynor Goodbody, Thurgoona, NSW says: &#8220;Now that we have an Assistant Minister for the Republic in Matt Thistlethwaite, perhaps we can take incremental steps in that direction before any referendum, which will be a while&#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-667","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\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}