{"id":3523,"date":"2010-09-04T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2010-09-04T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T15:18:49","slug":"whats-happening-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening in Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, a General Election in the UK led to the incumbent Labour Government losing its majority. Following the indecisive outcome of the poll, a\u00a0 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition was formed in five days &#8211; the first coalition government for 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, a Federal Election in Australia led to the incumbent Labor Government losing its majority. Two weeks later, the parties have still not managed to form a coalition government. When they do, it will be the first since the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>We now know that the Australian Labor Party could have done a bit better &#8211; possibly helping it to form a coalition government &#8211; if it was not for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/dad-who-took-out-alp-mp-jon-sullivan-recants\/story-e6frg6nf-1225913546804\">this extraordinary event. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, a General Election in the UK led to the incumbent Labour Government losing its majority. Following the indecisive outcome of the poll, a\u00a0 Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition was formed in five days &#8211; the first coalition government for 70 years. Two weeks ago, a Federal Election in Australia led to the incumbent Labor Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}