{"id":3709,"date":"2019-09-21T05:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2019-09-21T05:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:37:55","slug":"prime-minister-needs-to-get-his-facts-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/prime-minister-needs-to-get-his-facts-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Needs to get his Facts Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister has questions to answer about the language he today denied having used today to describe a former Australian senator.<br \/>\nIn a press conference today Mr Morrison was asked:<br \/>\n<em>JOURNALIST: Prime Minister why was it racist to question Gladys Liu\u2019s connections to China but it wasn\u2019t racist to call Sam Dastyari \u201cShanghai Sam\u201d?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>PRIME MINISTER: I didn\u2019t use either of those phrases.<\/em><br \/>\nMr Morrison has used the term \u201cShanghai Sam\u2019\u2019 at least 17 times on 11 occasions, including on the floor of the House of Representatives and in multiple media interviews.<br \/>\nThe only person linking concerns about Ms Liu to the entire Chinese-Australian population is Mr Morrison. He should stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister has questions to answer about the language he today denied having used today to describe a former Australian senator. In a press conference today Mr Morrison was asked: JOURNALIST: Prime Minister why was it racist to question Gladys Liu\u2019s connections to China but it wasn\u2019t racist to call Sam Dastyari \u201cShanghai Sam\u201d? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/prime-minister-needs-to-get-his-facts-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prime Minister Needs to get his Facts Right&#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-3709","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\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}