{"id":5217,"date":"2022-05-21T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sams-blog.com\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T03:23:55","slug":"after-nine-years-labor-finally-wins-government-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sams-blog.com\/?p=5217","title":{"rendered":"After nine years, Labor finally wins government in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia finally has a change of government. After nine long years under Liberal\/National rule, the Labor party has ensured that it will lead the next administration.<\/p>\n<p>Labor won the most seats in Saturday&#8217;s election and it remains to be seen whether they will govern in their own right or as a minority government.<\/p>\n<p>But they will have the first shot at governing given that they have close to the 76 seats needed for a majority in the lower house.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Apart from what was something of a surprise, the Liberals lost a number of seats which were traditionally their stronghold to independents.<\/p>\n<p>Even the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, lost his seat, Kooyong, a Liberal stronghold, to Monique Ryan, a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n<p>The results will take at least another two weeks to be known in full but people are rejoicing at the fall of what is widely seen as an incompetent government.<br \/>\n<!-- Start of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar sc_project=2720500; \nvar sc_invisible=1; \nvar sc_security=\"d25d8712\"; \nvar scJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ?\n\"https:\/\/secure.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(\"<sc\"+\"ript type='text\/javascript' src='\" + scJsHost+ \"statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js'><\/\"+\"script>\");\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"statcounter\"><a title=\"Web Analytics\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"statcounter\" src=\"\/\/c.statcounter.com\/2720500\/0\/d25d8712\/1\/\" alt=\"Web Analytics\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><br \/>\n<!-- End of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia finally has a change of government. After nine long years under Liberal\/National rule, the Labor party has ensured that it will lead the next administration. Labor won the most seats in Saturday&#8217;s election and it remains to be seen whether they will govern in their own right or as a minority government. But they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sams-blog.com\/?p=5217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After nine years, Labor finally wins government in Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2599,"url":"https:\/\/sams-blog.com\/?p=2599","url_meta":{"origin":5217,"position":0},"title":"Countdown to the poll that counts","date":"June 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"ONE hundred days from today, Australia will go to the hustings to elect a new federal government. 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