{"id":535822,"date":"2026-03-12T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:53:13","slug":"newsroom-edition-labor-is-walking-a-tightrope-as-the-politics-of-war-hits-australia-full-story-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535822\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsroom edition: Labor is walking a tightrope as the politics of war hits Australia \u2013 Full Story podcast |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the second week of the war with Iran draws to a close, any suggestion that Australia\u2019s involvement would be limited to in-principle support has evaporated. Last Friday, the Guardian and other media outlets reported that three Australians were on the US submarine that torpedoed an Iranian warship, killing 87 people. On Tuesday, the government confirmed it would send a surveillance aircraft, missiles, and personnel to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Tovey sits down with Gabrielle Jackson, Mike Ticher and Ben Doherty to discuss the tests Labor faces back home as Australia\u2019s involvement in the war escalates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the second week of the war with Iran draws to a close, any suggestion that Australia\u2019s involvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-535822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535822","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=535822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}