{"id":101275,"date":"2025-08-28T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101275\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:12:07","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-opposition-calls-on-richard-marles-to-come-clean-on-murky-us-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101275\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Opposition calls on Richard Marles to \u2018come clean\u2019 on murky US meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Coalition have accused Anthony Albanese of using parliamentary staffing allocations as a \u201cpolitical weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Opposition Senate leader Michaelia Cash introduced a bill on Thursday, accusing the Prime Minister of trying to avoid scrutiny and to \u201cbully, intimidate and silence\u201d their rival party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cMr Albanese has ripped up decades of convention\u2026 cutting Opposition and some crossbench capacity, and as a result, has deliberately weakened the Parliament\u2019s ability to hold the left-wing socialist Albanese government to account,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Senator Cash said while it could be masked as a \u201cgreat catch cry\u201d that cutting Opposition staffing saves taxpayers money, she claimed it doesn\u2019t, it only undermines democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis has got nothing to do with entitlements, nothing to do with entitlements at all. This is all about democracy, the undermining of democracy, by the Albanese Labour government,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coalition have accused Anthony Albanese of using parliamentary staffing allocations as a \u201cpolitical weapon\u201d. Opposition Senate leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-101275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}