{"id":777,"date":"2019-03-03T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=777"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:21:15","slug":"wasnt-that-the-republic-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t that &#8220;The Republic and Us&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC TV broadcasts as two-part documentary\u00a0in the prime Sunday evening timeslot: &#8220;The Crown and Us&#8221; but really it should have been &#8220;The Republic and Us with\u00a0seductive shots of the Royals since 1954&#8221;. This doco attempted to get to grips with ups and downs in Australian republicanism post WWII, while pretending\u00a0not to,\u00a0but was more of a talk fest without much of a central\u00a0or cohesive theme other than we didn&#8217;t like the royals other than Diana\u00a0much in the 1990s\u00a0along with everyone else and that\u00a0sentiment found its way into our\u00a0Republic\u00a0referendum (WfaAR disputes this\u00a0thesis)\u00a0but since then we do aided by moreish shots of\u00a0new generation of\u00a0royal clotheshorses\u00a0and their consorts\u00a0with plenty of the bejewelled young\u00a0queen for dessert.\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t quite clear where it ended up with the republicans campaigners (all male as usual, not good enough ABC)\u00a0still\u00a0hopeful\u00a0especially with Charles and Camilla in prospect.\u00a0ARM CEO, Michael Cooney, even went big salivating\u00a0over the actuarial figures for 92 year old British women; others were\u00a0not so sure.\u00a0The most interesting contributions were from women among them:\u00a0historians Julia Baird and Cindy McCreery; Indigenous activist Megan Davis commenting on the need for Indigenous Recognition first and the non-ceding of sovereignty; social commentators Nikki Gemmell on the glamour of royalty, Rebecca Huntley and Dee Madigan\u00a0with Rachel Bailes for the (young) monarchists although her Kate-lookalike hair was more convincing that the rest of what she had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC TV broadcasts as two-part documentary\u00a0in the prime Sunday evening timeslot: &#8220;The Crown and Us&#8221; but really it should have been &#8220;The Republic and Us with\u00a0seductive shots of the Royals since 1954&#8221;. This doco attempted to get to grips with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","wpcat-11-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}