{"id":855,"date":"2000-06-09T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-09T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=855"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:14:12","slug":"9-june-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"9 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the Queen&#8217;s birthday holiday, Anne Witheford issued a press release as Convenor of the newly reconstituted Australian Republican Movement in the ACT. She said that community support for the republic remained very strong. Ms Witheford referred to a University of Queensland study, funded by the Australian Research Council, which revealed that half the people who voted NO had, in fact, wanted a republic. She added that as the only state or territory to vote YES at the referendum, the ACT had proved itself a model for the new national republican umbrella organisation in the area of public consultation because it had achieved a broad coalition of republican groups &#8211; supporting a variety of models for election of the head of state &#8211; which worked successfully together in the lead-up to the vote. It had also coordinated and supported a dozen regional forums, some across state borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Queen&#8217;s birthday holiday, Anne Witheford issued a press release as Convenor of the newly reconstituted Australian Republican Movement in the ACT. She said that community support for the republic remained very strong. Ms Witheford referred to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12","wpcat-12-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}