{"id":12336,"date":"2018-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tom-koutsantonis-was-just-asked-if-he-wants-to-be-labor-leader\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:00:00","slug":"tom-koutsantonis-was-just-asked-if-he-wants-to-be-labor-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tom-koutsantonis-was-just-asked-if-he-wants-to-be-labor-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Koutsantonis Was Just Asked If He Wants To Be Labor Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former state treasurer Tom Koutsantonis hasn\u2019t ruled out running for the leadership after Jay Weatherill resigned following Labor\u2019s election loss.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/koust-sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Koutsantonis only insisted the party would put its \u201cbest foot forward\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWe\u2019ll get together and choose the best person, whoever that is,\u201d he told Sky News on Monday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe\u2019ve had two leaders in 20 years in the South Australia Labor party, and every Labor leader we\u2019ve elected has gone on to become premier since Don Dunstan. We take the position very, very seriously. We\u2019ll get together &#8212; there\u2019s plenty of time, the focus is on the government.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cPeople only stopped voting just over 40 hours ago\u2026 there\u2019s no rush.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cLet\u2019s just wait to see what the makeup of the caucus is. We\u2019ll get together in a collegiate way and choose the best person, whoever he or she is.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TKoutsantonisMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TKoutsantonisMP<\/a> has refused to rule out running for the leadership of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alpsa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alpsa<\/a><br><br>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BvxeQu3kJ2\">https:\/\/t.co\/BvxeQu3kJ2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newsday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newsday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cXs35gR2h9\">pic.twitter.com\/cXs35gR2h9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust\/status\/975557280409182208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former state treasurer Tom Koutsantonis hasn\u2019t ruled out running for the leadership after Jay Weatherill resigned following Labor\u2019s election loss. Koutsantonis only insisted the party would put its \u201cbest foot forward\u201d. \u201cWe\u2019ll get together and choose the best person, whoever that is,\u201d he told Sky News on Monday. \u201cWe\u2019ve had two leaders in 20 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom Koutsantonis Was Just Asked If He Wants To Be Labor Leader - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tom-koutsantonis-was-just-asked-if-he-wants-to-be-labor-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Koutsantonis Was Just Asked If He Wants To Be Labor Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former state treasurer Tom Koutsantonis hasn\u2019t ruled out running for the leadership after Jay Weatherill resigned following Labor\u2019s election loss. 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