{"id":29892,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/state-government-takes-a-hit-after-rebel-mp-leaves-labor\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"state-government-takes-a-hit-after-rebel-mp-leaves-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/state-government-takes-a-hit-after-rebel-mp-leaves-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"State government takes a hit after rebel MP leaves Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Premier Jay Weatherill now leads a minority government after Frances Bedford left Labor, saying she was \u201cdudded\u201d by the party.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the recent electoral redistribution, the party will give the seat of Florey &#8212; which Ms Bedford has held since 1997 &#8212; to Health Minister Jack Snelling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m now the one who\u2019s a member without a seat,\u201d Ms Bedford told David and Will on FIVEAA breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe musical chairs of boundary redistributions &#8212; there are lots of members who have had their seats decimated. But the old rule used to be you stayed where your seat name was irrespective of the numbers because that was easier for people to recognise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been active along the whole north eastern suburbs for 40 years basically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an unknown quantity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could just as easily run in Newland because I\u2019m very well known up that end of the seat, or I could try in Wright. Why am I the one being dudded?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The defection means Labor now has 23 seats, just short of a majority, but will continue to pass legislation with the support of independents Geoff Brock and Martin Hamilton-Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms Bedford said she hadn\u2019t changed despite leaving the party\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m exactly where I was the day before yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Labor values haven\u2019t changed. I started as a kindy mum just being active trying to get new books in the kindy. It\u2019s not like I\u2019ve changed my position on anything really.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/sportsday-sa\/did-the-adelaide-crows-make-a-draft-blunder-asks-kane-cornes\"><strong>KANE CORNES: DID THE CROWS MAKE A DRAFT BLUNDER?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-s-on-air-stoush-over-sa-boycott\"><strong>DAVID &amp; WILL\u2019S ON AIR STOUSH OVER SA BOYCOTT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Jay Weatherill now leads a minority government after Frances Bedford left Labor, saying she was \u201cdudded\u201d by the party. David and Will podcast on iTunes here. Following the recent electoral redistribution, the party will give the seat of Florey &#8212; which Ms Bedford has held since 1997 &#8212; to Health Minister Jack Snelling. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>State government takes a hit after rebel MP leaves Labor - 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\/show\/state-government-takes-a-hit-after-rebel-mp-leaves-labor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State government takes a hit after rebel MP leaves Labor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Premier Jay Weatherill now leads a minority government after Frances Bedford left Labor, saying she was \u201cdudded\u201d by the party. 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