{"id":2918,"date":"2020-10-18T04:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T04:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2020-10-18T04:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T04:29:03","slug":"labor-on-track-to-retain-control-of-act-with-a-little-help-from-the-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"Labor on track to retain control of ACT with a little help from The Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor has claimed victory in the ACT election, poised to govern in minority again with a resurgent Greens party.<\/p>\n<p>The expected victory means Labor will notch up 23 years in office by the end of the coming term.<\/p>\n<p>ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, the second-longest serving political leader in the country, told supporters the year 2020 had pressed the city to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had an extraordinary series of challenges thrown at us, as a city and as a community, and we\u2019ve got through it because we\u2019ve worked together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got through it because we\u2019ve applied progressive values to our government decisions and because we\u2019ve applied compassion and we haven\u2019t left people behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With counting due to continue well into next week, Labor appears to have won at least 11 seats and the Greens three, out of the 25-seat assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals could hold as few as eight seats, with the Greens securing as many as six if preferences go the minor party\u2019s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor has claimed victory in the ACT election, poised to govern in minority again with a resurgent Greens party. The expected victory means Labor will notch up 23 years in office by the end of the coming term. ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, the second-longest serving political leader in the country, told supporters the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news"],"views":55,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}