{"id":867,"date":"2000-08-13T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-13T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:12:28","slug":"13-august-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"13 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Hughes, expatriate art critic and commentator has upset the monarchists with his opinion on the downing of the republic proposal as taking place in a moment of &#8220;folly, weakness and irresoluteness&#8221;. His views appear in an official souvenir program put out by Sports Illustrated for the Olympics. The Executive Director of ACM, Mrs Kerry Jones, labelled the program &#8220;an absolute disgrace&#8221; and said that it should be pulped. &#8220;We resoundingly defeated the republic last year in a compulsory referendum,&#8221; she said. &#8220;To try to bring the republic issue up at this stage is an insult to the Australian people.&#8221; Reported by Andrew Stevenson in the&nbsp;<em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hughes, expatriate art critic and commentator has upset the monarchists with his opinion on the downing of the republic proposal as taking place in a moment of &#8220;folly, weakness and irresoluteness&#8221;. His views appear in an official souvenir program&#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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}