{"id":427796,"date":"2026-05-14T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=427796"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:23:57","slug":"tasmanian-senator-tammy-tyrrell-joins-labor-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=427796","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Senator Tammy Tyrrell Joins Labor Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy Tyrrell, 55, elected in 2022 under the Jacqui Lambie Network before going independent in March 2024, defected to Labor on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The switch raises Labor&#8217;s Senate seats to 30 out of 76, giving the left bloc a majority of 40 when combined with the Greens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyrrell, from a working-class background as a farmhand and employment adviser, said she regularly backed Labor votes and wants a stronger voice for Tasmania, calling it a good fit. Albanese praised her as a regional advocate after courting her for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The switch raises Labor&#8217;s Senate seats to 30 out of 76, giving the left bloc a majority of 40 when combined with the Greens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":427797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[20253],"class_list":["post-427796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-senator-tammy-tyrrell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427800,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427796\/revisions\/427800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}