{"id":831,"date":"2019-10-17T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=831"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:37:47","slug":"not-a-proper-engagement-for-head-of-states-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Not A Proper Engagement for Head of State&#8217;s Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was highly inappropriate for recently appointed Governor-General, David Hurley, ex&nbsp;Australian Army General, to be speaking &#8211;&nbsp;if not spruiking &#8211;&nbsp;at the National Prayer Breakfast, Parliament House in Canberra on 14 October.&nbsp;Not only is&nbsp;our country secular but many faiths are represented among its peoples, increasingly so.&nbsp;Thus, it was out of line for Hurley to speak about his Christian faith and its place in his life and leadership. The linked&nbsp;article has a good take on the whole event. Parliamentary host and sponsor, conservative Senator Amanda Stoker from Queensland&nbsp;of the Parliamentary Christian Forum is also the co-sponsor of the Inquiry into Nationhood, National Identity and Democracy (see News Updates of 29 July and 30 September). [&#8220;The Politics of the National Prayer Breakfast&#8221; by John Warhurst, The Canberra Times, 17 October 2019]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/story\/6440678\/the-politics-of-the-national-prayer-breakfast\/\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was highly inappropriate for recently appointed Governor-General, David Hurley, ex&nbsp;Australian Army General, to be speaking &#8211;&nbsp;if not spruiking &#8211;&nbsp;at the National Prayer Breakfast, Parliament House in Canberra on 14 October.&nbsp;Not only is&nbsp;our country secular but many faiths are represented&#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-831","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\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}