{"id":18178,"date":"2022-09-09T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18178"},"modified":"2022-09-09T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T23:10:15","slug":"sails-of-sydney-opera-house-illuminated-in-honour-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/sails-of-sydney-opera-house-illuminated-in-honour-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"SAILS OF SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ILLUMINATED IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The sails of the Sydney Opera House will be illuminated tonight in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Prime Minister of Australia and NSW Premier have announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the lighting the sails of the Sydney Opera House as a fitting tribute to Her late Majesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe late Queen Elizabeth the Second played an important role to the people of Australia during her reign and the lighting of the Sydney Opera House is a fitting tribute on behalf of the people of Australia,\u201d said Mr Albanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier Dominic Perrottet said the tribute on our most recognised icon will be a symbolic gesture on behalf of the NSW Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe tribute on the sails will recognise Her late Majesty\u2019s immense contribution to our state and nation, a fitting tribute as she officially opened the Sydney Opera House in 1973,\u201d said Mr Perrottet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails will take place over two days from 7.30pm to midnight on Friday, 9 September and from 6.30pm to midnight on Saturday, 10 September.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For information on condolences and floral tributes visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmc.gov.au\/her-majesty-the-queen\">Her Majesty The Queen<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/sovereign\">Vale Her Majesty The Queen<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sails of the Sydney Opera House will be illuminated tonight in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Prime Minister of Australia and NSW Premier have announced. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the lighting the sails of the Sydney Opera House as a fitting tribute to Her late Majesty. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/sails-of-sydney-opera-house-illuminated-in-honour-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SAILS OF SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ILLUMINATED IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18179,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions\/18179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}