{"id":46244,"date":"2022-07-10T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T00:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/10\/shinzo-abes-speech-to-the-australian-parliament-in-2014-video"},"modified":"2022-07-10T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T00:39:06","slug":"shinzo-abes-speech-to-the-australian-parliament-in-2014-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46244","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe&#8217;s speech to the Australian parliament in 2014 \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe spoke to Australian parliament in 2014, eight years to the day before he was shot and killed while giving a speech in Nara, Japan. The government, led by Tony Abbott, and opposition, led by Bill Shorten, listened&nbsp; as Abe spoke of strengthening ties between Australia and Japan. \u2018We will now join up in a scrum, just like in rugby, to nurture our regional and world order and to safeguard peace\u2019, Abe said. \u2018Today is a day that we bring life to our new special relationship, to make its birthday today. I should have brought a huge cake to share a piece every one of you\u2019, Abe said to laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gdnaustraliasubs\">Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Shinzo Abe death: shock in Japan at killing of former PM during election campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">Shinzo Abe shooting: former Japanese prime minister attacked during speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/jul\/09\/australia-news-live-updates-penny-wong-signals-china-thaw-nsw-counts-cost-of-floods?page=with:block-62c8e14d8f08ea32251a0223#block-62c8e14d8f08ea32251a0223\">Albanese pays tribute to Shinzo Abe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/10\/shinzo-abes-speech-to-the-australian-parliament-in-2014-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe spoke to Australian parliament in 2014, eight years to the day before he was shot and killed while giving a speech in Nara, Japan. The government, led by Tony Abbott, and opposition, led by Bill Shorten, li&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,324,88,638,1627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-tony-abbott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46244\/revisions\/46245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}