{"id":842789,"date":"2026-08-04T03:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:56:11","slug":"australia-news-live-mass-casualty-events-expected-as-h5n1-bird-flu-cases-rise-trump-says-latest-talks-offer-iran-last-chance-to-strike-a-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842789\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Mass casualty events expected as H5N1 bird flu cases rise; Trump says latest talks offer Iran \u2018last chance\u2019 to strike a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Nation Victoria president and candidate for Pakenham, Warren Pickering says he could be premier if his party won enough seats and formed a coalition with the Victorian Liberal National Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have gone as far as considering things like who we\u2019d want to have in our senior ministerial advisory positions and things like that,\u201d Pickering told 3AW, \u201cSo if that eventuates, we are on the front foot there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut yeah, as far as coalition partnerships and whatnot, government and ministerial distribution, we\u2019re not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warren Pickering in Melbourne this week. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3c8281cbcfec23fd77c6193bc960d19c52ff09d3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Warren Pickering in Melbourne this week. Jason South <\/p>\n<p>If One Nation won enough seats in the upcoming November Victorian election, it could form government in its own right, or if the party joined in coalition with the Liberal National Party and had the most seats, that would make Pickering the premier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we need to earn the trust of Victorians for the next four months before we even start to consider things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation Victoria president and candidate for Pakenham, Warren Pickering says he could be premier if his party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-842789","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\/842789","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=842789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}