{"id":6968,"date":"2021-03-29T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T01:40:55","slug":"dangerous-precedents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/dangerous-precedents\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous precedents"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Criminal law is not the only legal avenue to consider Christian Porter\u2019s accountability and his future. There is a strong argument \u2013 and precedent \u2013 to support the idea that the criminal law\u2019s inability to deal with situations like these <strong>in no way precludes other avenues for truth-seeking<\/strong>. A determination that this matter is closed, having never been properly investigated, would create a far more dangerous precedent than the one many commentators are warning us about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2021\/april\/1617195600\/bri-lee-and-kieran-pender\/dangerous-precedents#mtr\">Dangerous precedents | The Monthly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal law is not the only legal avenue to consider Christian Porter\u2019s accountability and his future. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,468,458,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-inequity","category-legal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","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=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}