{"id":972,"date":"2018-01-23T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:34:23","slug":"first-change-the-date-then-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"First Change the Date, then Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the actual day &#8211; and time for the&nbsp;annual&nbsp;soul-searching about Indigenous&nbsp;and&nbsp;colonial history&nbsp;soon forgotten &#8211; comes this thoughtful article from Professor Maggie Walter,&nbsp;Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Sociology at&nbsp;the University of Tasmania. She concludes: &#8220;Australia, first change the date to begin a just settling,&nbsp;<em>then&nbsp;<\/em>contemplate becoming a republic&#8221;.&nbsp; Her reasoning is thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Reconciliation between the Settler and First Nations populations is a self-evident prerequisite for Australia cutting the ties of colonial dependency with Britain to stand on our own. If we can\u2019t work out that we need to complete the peacemaking between Indigenous Australians \u2013 the sole occupiers of the Australian continent for upwards of 60,000 years \u2013 and those whose ancestors arrived at or post-1788, we are not ready to be a republic. We might be attracted to republican prestige, with its sense of a national coming of age, but we can\u2019t just take the title. Being a republic brings with it the responsibilities of being a grown-up country.&#8221;&nbsp;The complete article can be accessed on the link below [&#8220;First reconciliation, then a republic &#8211; starting with changing the date of Australia Day&#8221; by Maggie Walter, The Conversation online, 23 January 2018]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-reconciliation-then-a-republic-starting-with-changing-the-date-of-australia-day-89955\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the actual day &#8211; and time for the&nbsp;annual&nbsp;soul-searching about Indigenous&nbsp;and&nbsp;colonial history&nbsp;soon forgotten &#8211; comes this thoughtful article from Professor Maggie Walter,&nbsp;Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Sociology at&nbsp;the University of Tasmania. She concludes: &#8220;Australia, first change the date to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}