{"id":25778,"date":"2025-03-27T02:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-senator-wields-dead-salmon-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:40:50","slug":"australian-senator-wields-dead-salmon-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-senator-wields-dead-salmon-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian senator wields dead salmon in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">An Australian senator has revealed a dead salmon in a plastic bag while speaking in parliament, in protest against a bill being debated.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The bill is designed to protect salmon-farming jobs, prime minister Anthony Albanese&#8217;s Labor government says, but it would also limit the public&#8217;s ability to review and challenge environmental decisions.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Some politicians and environmental groups have already questioned salmon-farming practices in the state of Tasmania, accusing them of polluting waterways.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Tasmania is home to the Maugean skate, an endangered fish that dwells in the Macquarie Harbour, and conservationists are concerned about how pollution may affect them.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Green Party Senator Sarah Hanson-Young accused the Labor party of having &#8220;sold out on your environmental credentials&#8221; as she wielded the fish.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">President of the Senate Sue Lines called for Hanson-Young to remove &#8220;the prop&#8221; from the chamber.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cqx0nxpye7go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian senator has revealed a dead salmon in a plastic bag while speaking in parliament, in protest against a bill being debated. The bill is designed to protect salmon-farming jobs, prime minister Anthony Albanese&#8217;s Labor government says, but it would also limit the public&#8217;s ability to review and challenge environmental decisions. Some politicians and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[594,874,335,9266,6881,9265],"class_list":["post-25778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian","tag-dead","tag-parliament","tag-salmon","tag-senator","tag-wields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25780,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions\/25780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}