{"id":777773,"date":"2022-08-17T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2022\/08\/former-australia-pm-says-secret-powers-were-needed-in-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:46:00","slug":"former-australia-pm-says-secret-powers-were-needed-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/17\/former-australia-pm-says-secret-powers-were-needed-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australia PM Says Secret Powers Were Needed in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"While serving as prime minister, Scott Morrison also secretly appointed himself to five ministerial roles \u2013 without telling even the existing ministers.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2022\/08\/former-australia-pm-says-secret-powers-were-needed-in-crisis\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While serving as prime minister, Scott Morrison also secretly appointed himself to five ministerial roles \u2013 without telling even the existing ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777773"}],"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\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777774,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777773\/revisions\/777774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}