{"id":13506,"date":"2017-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nick-xenophon-just-dropped-a-huge-political-bombshell\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"nick-xenophon-just-dropped-a-huge-political-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nick-xenophon-just-dropped-a-huge-political-bombshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Xenophon Just Dropped A Huge Political Bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Speaking on Friday, Nick Xenophon revealed he will leave the Senate.<\/h3>\n<p>Xenophon will stand for SA Parliament, running in the seat of Hartley &#8212; currently held by Liberal Vincent Tarzia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI intend, as the leader of my party, to run as the SA Best candidate in the seat of Hartley in the house of assembly &#8212; a place where I\u2019ve lived for decades,\u201d Xenophon said in a speech tweeted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Australia\u2019s March 2018 election will be vitally important for our state. South Australia is at a crossroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tweedledum and Tweedldee of Labor and Liberal have long been more interested in fighting about which side gets their snouts in the trough rather than what is best for our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/081XifcLX4\">https:\/\/t.co\/081XifcLX4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nick Xenophon (@Nick_Xenophon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nick_Xenophon\/status\/916091602229108736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Nick Xenophon has announced he will resign from the Senate and run for the state seat of Hartley<\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/916088289047732224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nick_Xenophon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nick_Xenophon<\/a> quitting Senate to stand for SA Parliament<\/p>&mdash; Paul Starick (@paulstarick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulstarick\/status\/916088067328372736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Charlie-Cameron-Has-Asked-For-A-Trade-To-The-Brisbane-Lions-Says-Cleary\">ADELAIDE CROW CHARLIE CAMERON HAS ASKED TO BE TRADED: REPORT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Adelaide-Crow-Weighs-In-On-The-Photo-Of-Jake-Lever-At-The-Dump\"><strong>FORMER TEAMMATE COMMENTS ON PIC OF JAKE LEVER AT THE DUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on Friday, Nick Xenophon revealed he will leave the Senate. Xenophon will stand for SA Parliament, running in the seat of Hartley &#8212; currently held by Liberal Vincent Tarzia. \u201cI intend, as the leader of my party, to run as the SA Best candidate in the seat of Hartley in the house of assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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>Nick Xenophon Just Dropped A Huge Political Bombshell - 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\/nick-xenophon-just-dropped-a-huge-political-bombshell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Xenophon Just Dropped A Huge Political Bombshell\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaking on Friday, Nick Xenophon revealed he will leave the Senate. 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