{"id":788480,"date":"2026-07-28T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:52:10","slug":"federal-politics-live-penny-wong-signals-fuel-excise-cut-will-discontinue-after-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788480\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal politics live: Penny Wong signals fuel excise cut will &#8216;discontinue&#8217; after August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Cheek Media founder Hannah Ferguson has announced she intends to run in Anthony Albanese&#8217;s seat of Grayndler at the next federal election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ferguson, who was born in the electorate, says she doesn&#8217;t feel represented by the prime minister at a local level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Albanese has held the seat, which covers Sydney&#8217;s inner-west, since 1996, and he won just over 53 per cent of the primary vote at the last election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Speaking to Channel Seven, Ferguson says she&#8217;ll campaign on gas export tax and gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;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,&#8221; Ferguson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I think more people need to be standing up, putting their heads above the parapet and challenging people like the prime minister. At the end of the day, he&#8217;s an elected local representative and I believe he&#8217;s failing the area and I want to change that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheek Media founder Hannah Ferguson has announced she intends to run in Anthony Albanese&#8217;s seat of Grayndler at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[236208,33820,28,101,335362,34883,935,111],"class_list":["post-788480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-angus-taylor","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-federal-parliament","tag-federal-politics","tag-live-blog","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}