{"id":647342,"date":"2022-05-10T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=341910"},"modified":"2022-05-10T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T22:09:29","slug":"a-matter-of-discretion-politicians-make-their-own-rules-on-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/10\/a-matter-of-discretion-politicians-make-their-own-rules-on-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"A matter of discretion: politicians make their own rules on funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Scott-rort.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Community Development Grants\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Scott-rort.jpg 800w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Scott-rort-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>More than a third of the 1000 or so Commonwealth Grant programs established since 2018 have been awarded by ministerial discretion alone, more than $7 billion worth.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/a-matter-of-discretion-politicians-make-their-own-rules-on-funding\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a third of the 1000 or so Commonwealth Grant programs established since 2018 have been awarded by ministerial discretion alone, more than $7 billion worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738,45736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647343,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647342\/revisions\/647343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}