{"id":834,"date":"2018-11-27T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=834"},"modified":"2018-11-27T00:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:20:37","slug":"greens-say-nationals-senate-motion-over-a-facebook-post-demonstrates-desperation-in-face-of-potentially-losing-the-state-seat-of-lismore-to-the-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/greens-say-nationals-senate-motion-over-a-facebook-post-demonstrates-desperation-in-face-of-potentially-losing-the-state-seat-of-lismore-to-the-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens say Nationals Senate motion over a Facebook post demonstrates desperation in face of potentially losing the state seat of Lismore to the Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals are showing their desperation to not lose the state seat of Lismore to the Greens, following a motion introduced in the Australian Senate today.<br \/>\n\u201cThe motion over a Facebook post shows the National Party are desperate to hold on to the state seat of Lismore, a seat they very nearly lost to the Greens at the last election,\u201d said Senator Janet Rice, Australian Greens agriculture and rural affairs spokesperson.<br \/>\n\u201cInstead of recognising that they\u2019re on the nose in the Northern Rivers because they sold the farmers and farming communities out to coal seam gas, they are wasting the Senate\u2019s time on a Facebook post.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cInstead of recognising that farmers are fed up with the Nationals burying their heads in the sand when it comes to climate change while drought ravages regional and remote communities across Australia, the Nationals are focused on playing games in parliament.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMeanwhile the Greens in the Northern Rivers, as with Greens across the country, are standing with and supporting farmers. In fact the Greens in the Northern Rivers are farmers, including our excellent candidate for the state seat of Lismore, dry land rice grower Sue Higginson.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Lines atrributable to Sue Higginson, Northern Rivers farmer and Greens candidate for the state seat of Lismore:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe irony is that while Senators Williams and O\u2019Sullivan are making hay out of a Facebook post and selling farmers out to their coal and gas lobbyist mates, I was out loading a semi-trailer with stock fodder grown on my farm to send to cattle farmers in the west of NSW who are enduring the drought.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cIf the Nationals want to really help farmers, that\u2019s how they can help farmers, not clutching at straws over a Facebook post.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals are showing their desperation to not lose the state seat of Lismore to the Greens, following a motion introduced in the Australian Senate today. \u201cThe motion over a Facebook post shows the National Party are desperate to hold on to the state seat of Lismore, a seat they very nearly lost to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/greens-say-nationals-senate-motion-over-a-facebook-post-demonstrates-desperation-in-face-of-potentially-losing-the-state-seat-of-lismore-to-the-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens say Nationals Senate motion over a Facebook post demonstrates desperation in face of potentially losing the state seat of Lismore to the Greens&#8221;<\/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-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}