{"id":301793,"date":"2018-08-24T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301793"},"modified":"2018-08-24T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T06:56:07","slug":"scott-morrison-to-become-australias-next-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/scott-morrison-to-become-australias-next-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Morrison to become Australia\u2019s next Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301794 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/scott-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/scott-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/scott-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/scott-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/scott.png 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Scott Morrison is Australia\u2019s new Prime Minister after he defeated Peter Dutton 45 votes to 40 in the secret ballot. The decision ended a week-long chaos in the Capital<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scott Morrison won leadership of the Liberal Party and will be sworn in as Prime Minister later today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A defeated Malcolm Turnbull\u00a0stood down from leadership after he lost the majority support of his Liberal Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Malcolm Turnbull tweeted, \u201cI have just been provided with a request for a meeting of the Parliamentary Liberal Party. It has 43 signatures. As soon as they are verified by the Whips, which should not take long, the meeting will be called.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Opposition Peter Dutton hoped that he had the numbers to pull off the move, but Morrison succeeded in the voting to become next Prime Minister of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After leaving the party room meeting, Dutton offered his congratulations to Scott Morrison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With Morrison becoming the new Prime Minister,\u00a0Australia will get its sixth prime minister\u00a0in 11 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison is Australia\u2019s new Prime Minister after he defeated Peter Dutton 45 votes to 40 in the secret ballot. The decision ended a week-long chaos in the Capital Scott Morrison won leadership of the Liberal Party and will be sworn in as Prime Minister later today. A defeated Malcolm Turnbull\u00a0stood down from leadership after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2123,4377,4376,1346,4375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301795,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301793\/revisions\/301795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}