{"id":12975,"date":"2021-09-15T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2021-09-15T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:31:37","slug":"secret-porter-donor-makes-a-mockery-of-donations-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/secret-porter-donor-makes-a-mockery-of-donations-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say Christian Porter\u2019s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sorry saga of blame-shifting and responsibility-dodging by the Morrison Government.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis is a farce. Christian Porter\u2019s so-called \u2018disclosure\u2019 of who paid his legal fees makes a mockery of the register of interests and donations disclosure laws, and is just another instalment in a sorry chapter for parliamentary standards.<br \/>\n\u201cLet\u2019s be really clear about what\u2019s happened here: An unknown person gave an undisclosed sum of money to a Cabinet Minister, which he used to fund a defamation case designed to silence the reporting of rape allegations made against him.<br \/>\n\u201cHow much was given? Who\u2019s it from? What kind of influence does this person have over Christian Porter? If anonymous donations of unknown amounts are permitted purely because they are made via a blind trust, what is the point of donations disclosure laws at all?<br \/>\n\u201cThe PM has totally bungled his handling of the allegations against Christian Porter from day one. His willingness to keep an alleged rapist in his Cabinet without any attempt to determine the truth of the allegations reeks of male privilege and fundamentally misjudges the public mood.<br \/>\n\u201cMorrison must instruct his Minister to reveal the amount and source of these funds and ensure the transparency that the Australian people demand.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd he should support the Greens\u2019 call for an independent inquiry to determine whether Christian Porter is a fit and proper person to hold a Ministerial position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say Christian Porter\u2019s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sorry saga of blame-shifting and responsibility-dodging by the Morrison Government. Greens deputy leader and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters said: \u201cThis is a farce. Christian Porter\u2019s so-called \u2018disclosure\u2019 of who paid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/secret-porter-donor-makes-a-mockery-of-donations-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}