{"id":871,"date":"2000-09-15T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2000-09-15T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=871"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:12:08","slug":"15-september-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"15 September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women have been very successful in being elected to the ARM&#8217;s new National Council and to Branch Councils, each of 11 members, in the States:National Council: Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Susan Ryan (seven women stood out of 33 candidates for the eight directly elected positions)NSW: Alison Henry, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Babette Smith (three out of three &#8211; 31 total);Vic: Helen Millicer, Kerry Lovering, Laura Cook, Chris Palfreyman (four out of four &#8211; 14 total);Qld: Rita Troughton (one out of two &#8211; 14 total);SA: Naomi Pearson, Wendy Shirley, Majorie Schulze, Leigh Evans (four out of four &#8211; 15 total);WA: Julie Armstrong, Marilyn West, Kathy Hardie, Annette Holmes (four out of five &#8211; 18 total);Tas: Lisa Singh, Louise Sullivan (two out of two &#8211; 11 total);ACT: Anne Witheford, Kirsten Andrews, Gwen Wilcox (three out of five \u2013 14 total);NT: no electionTwo women stood for Youth Representative on National Council out of nine candidates but neither was elected. Kate Ellis (SA) and Felicia Wells (ACT) were chosen for Branch Councils from a small number of women candidates for the single youth position in each State. The ARM election was conducted online as well as using traditional ballot papers according to members&#8217; choice. There was signifcant take-up of electronic voting by young members of the ARM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women have been very successful in being elected to the ARM&#8217;s new National Council and to Branch Councils, each of 11 members, in the States:National Council: Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Susan Ryan (seven women stood out of 33 candidates for&#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-871","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\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}