Today it is finally official: lutruwita\/Tasmania\u2019s federal election preferences have been formally distributed and Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has been re-elected to the Senate in third position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens\u2019 Senate quota in Tassie has officially come in at 15.48%. This is our Party\u2019s highest Senate result across all of Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn real terms the Greens\u2019 Senate vote in lutruwita\/Tasmania climbed almost 25% from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m honoured that my below the line first-preference vote was the highest of all Tasmanian Senators, including Eric Abetz who has served as a Tasmanian Senator for 28 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis magnificent result is down to all those who worked hard and supported the Greens this election. Supporters, volunteers, staff, candidates, and so many others. I extend a very big thank you to you all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis election people backed the Greens in record numbers and delivered a massive mandate for action on climate. Big opportunities now lie ahead for us to get outcomes for our planet and its people, and to be part of a progressive political chapter in this nation\u2019s history – one that does politics differently, and breaks the state capture of our parliament by powerful vested interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today it is finally official: lutruwita\/Tasmania\u2019s federal election preferences have been formally distributed and Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has been re-elected to the Senate in third position. Greens Senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said: \u201cThe Greens\u2019 Senate quota in Tassie has officially come in at 15.48%. This is our Party\u2019s highest Senate result across all … Continue reading “Whish-Wilson gains highest Greens Senate result across Australia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17040,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}