{"id":827963,"date":"2026-07-28T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:09:10","slug":"australia-news-live-cheek-media-founder-to-run-against-pm-in-grayndler-at-2028-federal-election-victorian-premier-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827963\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Cheek Media founder to run against PM in Grayndler at 2028 federal election; Victorian Premier resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheek Media founder Hannah Ferguson has announced she will run against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the seat of Grayndler at the next election.<\/p>\n<p>The podcaster and commentator said Australians were fed up with the major parties and felt they weren\u2019t being listened to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hannah Ferguson said she was born in Marrickville in Sydney\u2019s Inner West and lives in the Grayndler electorate. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e67c6ec3db27e429ad483892dca20317f19e8067.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Hannah Ferguson said she was born in Marrickville in Sydney\u2019s Inner West and lives in the Grayndler electorate. Oscar Colman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been the member for 30 years, and I feel like, as a young person in Australia, that I do not feel represented at a local level by him. I think this is an incredibly progressive electorate that demands and deserves more than a politician who is beholden to the interests of the gambling lobby and the fossil fuel industry,\u201d Ferguson told Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore people need to be standing up, putting their head above the parapet, and challenging people like the prime minister,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson said she planned to step away from the company she founded, Cheek Media, next year to campaign full-time.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old had previously indicated she would run as an independent candidate for the Senate, but said community members had urged her to take on Albanese in the lower house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheek Media founder Hannah Ferguson has announced she will run against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-827963","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\/827963","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=827963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}