{"id":5178,"date":"2020-02-02T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:26:18","slug":"ministers-like-bridget-mckenzie-have-no-discretion-to-break-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/ministers-like-bridget-mckenzie-have-no-discretion-to-break-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers like Bridget McKenzie have no discretion to break the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-02-02\/bridget-mckenzie-sport-grants-minister-rules\/11922152\">ABC<\/a> 2020-2-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Ministers keep saying in relation to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-02-01\/bridget-mckenzie-agriculture-minister-career-hangs-in-balance\/11919734\">the sports-rorts affai<\/a>r that Bridget McKenzie had ministerial discretion to make the grants and that she was only exercising normal ministerial powers. They also keep saying that no rules were broken.This either shows a complete misunderstanding of the powers of ministers within the legal system, or a desire to mislead the media and the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC 2020-2-2 Ministers keep saying in relation to\u00a0the sports-rorts affair that Bridget McKenzie had ministerial discretion to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}