{"id":10836,"date":"2011-08-24T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2011-08-24T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T14:44:15","slug":"australian-government-risks-defeat-over-mps-brothel-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/australian-government-risks-defeat-over-mps-brothel-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government risks defeat over MP&#8217;s brothel expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian politics are so much more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/24\/australian-mp-prostitute-payments-inquiry?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\"><em>interesting<\/em><\/a> than our boring old Canadian version:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A political scandal involving alleged payments to prostitutes by an MP, which threatens Australia&#8217;s minority government, deepened on Wednesday when the politician&#8217;s former union asked police to investigate his union credit card bills.<\/p>\n<p>The move by the Health Services Union (HSU) increases the likelihood that police will launch a criminal investigation into the union&#8217;s former boss Craig Thomson over alleged payments using credit cards to a Sydney brothel.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson, who is now an government MP, has denied any wrongdoing. But if he is charged with a criminal offence and then found guilty, he would be forced to leave parliament, prompting a by-election that could bring down Julia Gillard&#8217;s government, which has a one-seat majority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian politics are so much more interesting than our boring old Canadian version: A political scandal involving alleged payments to prostitutes by an MP, which threatens Australia&#8217;s minority government, deepened on Wednesday when the politician&#8217;s former union asked police to investigate his union credit card bills. The move by the Health Services Union (HSU) increases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,84,53],"tags":[458,520,413,392],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-government","category-politics","tag-parliament","tag-prostitution","tag-scandal","tag-unions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2OM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}