{"id":12874,"date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/jay-weatherill-has-decided-not-to-attend-a-leaders-debate-next-month\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"jay-weatherill-has-decided-not-to-attend-a-leaders-debate-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/jay-weatherill-has-decided-not-to-attend-a-leaders-debate-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Weatherill Has Decided Not To Attend A Leaders Debate Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Premier Jay Weatherill has declined an invitation to appear with Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon at a leaders debate hosted by the Property Council next month.<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Weatherill says his absence will leave Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon to \u201cbattle it out\u201d for \u201cconservative hearts and minds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1065\" width=\"800\" 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\/jayweatherill.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThis debate will determine the true Liberal Party leader &#8212; the embattled Steven Marshall, or Nick Xenophon,\u201d Mr Weatherill said on Tuesday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe know that Nick Xenophon is a former Liberal Party member. His new Party is stacked with former Liberals including Sam Johnson, who had been touted as a future leader of the Liberal Party in SA.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cNick Xenophon has witnessed the capitulation of the Liberals under Steven Marshall and is taking full advantage &#8212; he wants to be the Liberal Party leader.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI will participate in several other leaders debates &#8212; just not this one.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Weatherill said the Property Council had advertised the event before confirming his attendance.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Premier <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayWeatherill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JayWeatherill<\/a> won&#39;t be attending next month&#39;s leaders debate hosted by the Property Council in the lead up to the state election  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Adelaide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Adelaide<\/a> @FIVEAANews<\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/953103836629024768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Jay Weatherill has declined an invitation to appear with Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon at a leaders debate hosted by the Property Council next month. Mr Weatherill says his absence will leave Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon to \u201cbattle it out\u201d for \u201cconservative hearts and minds\u201d. \u201cThis debate will determine the true Liberal Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6448,"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-12874","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>Jay Weatherill Has Decided Not To Attend A Leaders Debate Next Month - 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\/jay-weatherill-has-decided-not-to-attend-a-leaders-debate-next-month\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jay Weatherill Has Decided Not To Attend A Leaders Debate Next Month\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Premier Jay Weatherill has declined an invitation to appear with Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon at a leaders debate hosted by the Property Council next month. 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