{"id":690,"date":"2007-05-05T00:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2007-05-05T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T15:00:13","slug":"combet-bumped-into-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Combet bumped into Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australian working class united in joy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Greg Combet<\/em> confirmed his entry into Parliamentary politics in 2000, when he was appointed ACTU Secretary &#8212; his appointment a reflection of his many promotional efforts on behalf of the ALP (efforts which peaked recently with <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=493\">the ACTU-sponsored &#8216;Vote Labor&#8217; campaign<\/a>). Formal notification of his finding a comfortable seat (in Charlton, NSW), however, has been delayed by media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200705\/s1914751.htm\">until today<\/a>. Combet knows a lot about Charlton, just as he knew much about being a dockworker before beginning his career with the WWF in 1987. Further, while a seat in Parliament has long been assured, Combet&#8217;s future Cabinet role was in doubt until Rupert Murdoch consecrated a change in Government during Kevin Rudd&#8217;s audience with him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/murdoch-backs-rudd-as-pm\/2007\/04\/21\/1176697152165.html\">in April<\/a>. Media, however, are again expected to delay the announcement until some time in November, when formal ceremonies are expected to have been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian working class united in joy Greg Combet confirmed his entry into Parliamentary politics in 2000, when he was appointed ACTU Secretary &#8212; his appointment a reflection of his many promotional efforts on behalf of the ALP (efforts which peaked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-b8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}