{"id":989,"date":"2018-03-20T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=989"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:38:48","slug":"new-caledonia-independence-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia Independence Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The date for New Caledonia&#8217;s independence referendum has been announced: 18 November. It has been a long time coming after first being scheduled in 2014&nbsp;and is strongly supported by the Indigenous Kanaks, making up 45 percent of the total population. New Caledonia has a history very similar to Australia&#8217;s after starting as a penal colony in the 19th century, having a proud participation in the 20th century&nbsp;world wars&nbsp;and is resource rich providing&nbsp;25 percent of the world&#8217;s supply of&nbsp;nickel.&nbsp;It is currently an overseas territory of France and has&nbsp;four members&nbsp;in the&nbsp;French parliament.&nbsp;For more information, click on the link below. [&#8220;New Caledonia sets date for independence referendum&#8221; by Kim Willsher, The Guardian online, 19 March 2018]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/19\/new-caledonia-sets-date-independence-referendum-france\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date for New Caledonia&#8217;s independence referendum has been announced: 18 November. It has been a long time coming after first being scheduled in 2014&nbsp;and is strongly supported by the Indigenous Kanaks, making up 45 percent of the total population&#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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}