{"id":87799,"date":"2016-06-15T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T02:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=87799&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-06-15T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T02:43:44","slug":"australian-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/australian-federal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Federal Election will be held on Saturday, 2 July, 2016. It is now too late to enrol to vote for this election. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Postal Vote Applications<\/strong><br \/>\nOnline applications for a postal vote (for those already registered to vote) are available on the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aec.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.aec.gov.au<\/a>). Your application for a postal vote must be received by the AEC by 29 June, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In-person Voting at an Overseas Voting Center<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are currently enrolled, you can vote in person at the Australian Consulate-General, commencing Monday 20 June. Please call to make an appointment. For other locations in Japan, please refer to the Embassy website (<a href=\"http:\/\/japan.embassy.gov.au\/tkyo\/voting.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/japan.embassy.gov.au\/tkyo\/voting.html<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Australian Consulate-General Fukuoka<br \/>\nTel.: 092-734- 5055<br \/>\nFax: 092-734- 5058<br \/>\nE-mail: fukuoka.japan@austrade.gov.au<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Australian Consulate-General Fukuoka is asking Australians in Kyushu to register online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartraveller.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.smartraveller.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/australian-election-ft-img-1-1.jpg?resize=640%2C419\" alt=\"australian election ft img\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/australian-election-ft-img-1-1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/australian-election-ft-img-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Federal Election will be held on Saturday, 2 July, 2016. It is now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":87903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-87799","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-politics","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/87799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}