{"id":993,"date":"2018-04-02T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=993"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:39:52","slug":"ballarats-museum-of-australian-democracy-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Ballarat&#8217;s Museum of Australian Democracy Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum, losing around\u00a0$1m a year, has been closed by the Ballarat City Council. Its best-known\u00a0exhibit, the 1854 Eureka\u00a0Stockade\u00a0flag,\u00a0is to\u00a0be rehoused\u00a0in a\u00a0new visitors centre in the city.\u00a0 Seems Australian democracy didn&#8217;t pay all that well and couldn&#8217;t attract the masses.\u00a0This is regrettable\u00a0but unsurprising\u00a0given the overall\u00a0tenor of our political discourse and disengagement of voters in all\u00a0three\u00a0levels of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The museum, losing around\u00a0$1m a year, has been closed by the Ballarat City Council. Its best-known\u00a0exhibit, the 1854 Eureka\u00a0Stockade\u00a0flag,\u00a0is to\u00a0be rehoused\u00a0in a\u00a0new visitors centre in the city.\u00a0 Seems Australian democracy didn&#8217;t pay all that well and couldn&#8217;t attract the masses.\u00a0This&#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-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}