{"id":126339,"date":"2025-09-07T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126339\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:22:09","slug":"shane-mcinnes-calls-on-afl-to-bring-in-welcome-to-country-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126339\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane McInnes calls on AFL to bring in Welcome to Country &#8216;mandates&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s Welcome to Country at ENGIE Stadium went for four minutes, a length of time which Shane McInnes believes is too long.<\/p>\n<p>He has called for the AFL to mandate the duration of the Welcome to Country ceremonies and thinks it should be a \u201cmaximum of 90 seconds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be going for four and half minutes, sorry that\u2019s too long,\u201d McInnes said on 3AW Football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to Shane McInnes\u2019 thoughts on 3AW<\/p>\n<p>Image: Getty\/Darrian Traynor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s Welcome to Country at ENGIE Stadium went for four minutes, a length of time which Shane McInnes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-126339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}