{"id":1919,"date":"2022-11-20T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becrux.au\/2022\/11\/20\/proposed-changes-for-a-referendum\/"},"modified":"2022-11-20T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:37:08","slug":"proposed-changes-for-a-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/proposed-changes-for-a-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed changes for a referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/reconciliation-will-be-damaged-if-voice-fails-burney-20221117-p5bz8i.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026The federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5bm1l\">has committed to holding the referendum<\/a> during the 2023-24 financial year, with the final date yet to be determined by the cabinet. It has been working closely with a working group of Indigenous leaders who, in a meeting last week, canvassed changes to the Referendum Machinery Provisions Act 1984 which will be considered by cabinet in the coming fortnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One option on the table is to change the act\u2019s requirement for voters to be sent a pamphlet in the post outlining the proposed change to the Constitution, comprising up to 2000 words each on the Yes and No case, and instead make this information available electronically\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/reconciliation-will-be-damaged-if-voice-fails-burney-20221117-p5bz8i.html \u2026The federal government has committed to holding the referendum during the 2023-24 financial year, with the final date yet to be determined by the cabinet. It has been working closely with a working group of Indigenous leaders who, in a meeting last week, canvassed changes to the Referendum Machinery Provisions Act 1984 which will &#8230; <a title=\"Proposed changes for a referendum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/proposed-changes-for-a-referendum\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Proposed changes for a referendum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}