{"id":6249,"date":"2020-10-28T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T04:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T04:16:57","slug":"is-scott-morrison-angry-that-public-servants-got-cartier-watches-or-that-the-public-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/28\/is-scott-morrison-angry-that-public-servants-got-cartier-watches-or-that-the-public-found-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Scott Morrison angry that public servants got Cartier watches \u2013 or that the public found out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But is <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/scott-morrison\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Scott Morrison<\/a> angry because his most senior bureaucrats have been living large on the corporate credit card, or because the public found out about it? We only know that the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-10-23\/investigation-asic-launched-chair-james-shipton-stepping-aside\/12807278\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">chair of Asic billed taxpayers for his personal tax advice<\/a> because the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) told us, likewise for the $70,000 the deputy chair of Asic <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/oct\/26\/asic-deputy-chairman-resigns-after-70000-rental-payment-revealed\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">\u201cmistakenly\u201d received<\/a> in rental assistance. But while senior bureaucrats at Australia Post get a Cartier watch for landing a big contract, those at the ANAO are rewarded with a <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/oct\/08\/coalition-accused-of-trying-to-avoid-scrutiny-after-audit-office-budget-cut\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">$14m budget cut<\/a> for their forensic accounting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/28\/is-scott-morrison-angry-that-public-servants-got-cartier-watches-or-that-the-public-found-out\">Is Scott Morrison angry that public servants got Cartier watches \u2013 or that the public found out?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Corrupt PM is upset about corruption being found so is defunding those who can identify corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But is Scott Morrison angry because his most senior bureaucrats have been living large on the corporate credit card, [&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-6249","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\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6250,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}