{"id":13213,"date":"2025-07-22T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:03:09","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-senator-mehreen-faruqi-stages-silent-protest-during-g-g-sam-mostyns-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13213\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Senator Mehreen Faruqi stages silent protest during G-G Sam Mostyn\u2019s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The woman who unseated Peter Dutton on her third tilt at the seat of Dickson says her \u201cepic journey\u201d into Parliament is neither a sad nor happy story, but a very human one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Ali France led the speeches from new MPs on Tuesday evening, the first of 20 freshman members of Labor\u2019s caucus who will introduce themselves to Parliament this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In a moving speech, she laid out her deep Labor roots and the struggles she has faced, including losing a leg in 2011 and her son Henry dying of leukaemia in early 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Read the full wrap below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman who unseated Peter Dutton on her third tilt at the seat of Dickson says her \u201cepic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","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=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}