{"id":861,"date":"2000-07-08T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-08T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:13:41","slug":"8-july-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"8 July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland, has a go at a republican scenario while in London,&nbsp; commemorating the passing of the Australian Constitution bill by the UK Parliament in 1900. Beattie&#8217;s proposal is to experiment with republic options while remaining a monarchy &#8211; the Queen would retain the formal role of appointing a State governor on the advice of the premier; this person could be elected or whomever the state parliament chooses after public nominations. Reported in&nbsp;<em>The Australian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland, has a go at a republican scenario while in London,&nbsp; commemorating the passing of the Australian Constitution bill by the UK Parliament in 1900. Beattie&#8217;s proposal is to experiment with republic options while remaining 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-861","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\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}