{"id":139936,"date":"2015-08-02T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=139936"},"modified":"2015-08-02T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:58:39","slug":"australia-speaker-bronwyn-bishop-quits-over-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=139936","title":{"rendered":"Australia Speaker Bronwyn Bishop quits over expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker of the lower house of the Australian parliament, Bronwyn Bishop, has resigned over an expenses scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bishop, an ally of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, had used AU$5,000 (\u00a32,300) in public funds to charter a helicopter to attend a political fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed expenses for attending colleagues&#8217; weddings. Mr Abbott said Ms Bishop&#8217;s resignation was the right decision to take.<\/p>\n<p>He announced that the parliamentary expenses system would now be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abbott has himself had to pay back money spent on travel in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bishop has apologised and is paying back the helicopter costs but had, until Sunday, resisted calls to resign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__h1\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker of the lower house of the Australian parliament, Bronwyn Bishop, has resigned over an expenses scandal. Ms Bishop, an ally of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, had used AU$5,000 (\u00a32,300) in public funds to charter a helicopter to attend a political fundraiser. She also claimed expenses for attending colleagues&#8217; weddings. Mr Abbott said Ms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":139938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-139936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}