{"id":861690,"date":"2026-08-20T06:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861690\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:10:34","slug":"deputy-premier-guy-barnett-ends-up-in-urgent-care-after-tennis-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861690\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Premier Guy Barnett ends up in urgent care after tennis accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Premier Guy Barnett has ended up in an urgent care clinic after a game of tennis went wrong before parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett needed stitches following the incident, joking about his injury with the line \u201cyou should see the other bloke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thanked staff at Ochre Medical Centre Hobart for their quick work patching him up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial thanks to Jane, Ali and Chloe at Ochre Medical Centre Hobart for stitching me up in no time,\u201d Barnett said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"74040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A game of tennis went wrong for Guy Barnett before Parliament&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o-300x375.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da245d2b-7egmp2dhy2gjb54_1s4m4_53e0o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\"  \/>A game of tennis went wrong for Guy Barnett before Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Premier Guy Barnett has ended up in an urgent care clinic after a game of tennis went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-861690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861690","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=861690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}