{"id":16828,"date":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/senator-bob-day-resigns\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"senator-bob-day-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/senator-bob-day-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bob Day resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Family First senator Bob Day has formally resigned from the upper house.<\/h3>\n<p>His former chief of staff Rikki Lambert has announced himself at the candidate for the vacant Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday Senator Day said the major investor that had been examining his Home Australia business over the past fortnight had decided not to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"654\" width=\"883\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2016-11-01_at_10.44.25_am.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He tendered his resignation to Senate President Stephen Parry, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as a senator for South Australia and I am sorry it has ended this way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will now devote my time and energy to assisting those who have been affected by the company&#8217;s closure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>-AAP<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-nominate-jarman-as-father-son\"><strong>CROWS NOMINATE LEGEND\u2019S LAD AS A POSSIBLE FATHER-SON PICK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/garry-s-back-says-sam-newman\"><strong>MAYBE WE COULD\u2019VE DONE MORE TO HELP GARRY LYON, SAYS SAM NEWMAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family First senator Bob Day has formally resigned from the upper house. His former chief of staff Rikki Lambert has announced himself at the candidate for the vacant Senate seat. In a statement on Tuesday Senator Day said the major investor that had been examining his Home Australia business over the past fortnight had decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16828","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>Senator Bob Day resigns - 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\/senator-bob-day-resigns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator Bob Day resigns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Family First senator Bob Day has formally resigned from the upper house. 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