{"id":15896,"date":"2022-08-16T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/scott-morrison-advocates-holding-ministry-portfolios-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-stabbing-children-in-adelaide-two-states-bracing-for-wetter-weather-father-of-innocent-sydney-shooting-victim-sa\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:30:19","slug":"scott-morrison-advocates-holding-ministry-portfolios-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-stabbing-children-in-adelaide-two-states-bracing-for-wetter-weather-father-of-innocent-sydney-shooting-victim-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15896","title":{"rendered":"Scott Morrison advocates holding ministry portfolios;  Woman arrested for allegedly stabbing children in Adelaide;  Two states bracing for wetter weather;  Father of innocent Sydney shooting victim says he was an &#8216;angel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text--author\">By 9News staff<\/span>August 15, 2022 10:32 p.m<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison today defended holding three additional Cabinet portfolios in secret while in power.<\/p>\n<p>He called into Ben Fordham&#8217;s 2GB radio show this morning, insisting he had to take &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; measures during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a safeguard in terms of how we were making decisions, you know, at a pretty extraordinary time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that it was an &#8220;oversight&#8221; not to inform all cabinet colleagues affected by his additional portfolio responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think sometimes we forget what was going on two years ago and the situation we were dealing with, it was a very unprecedented time,&#8221; Morrison said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were facing unprecedented times and we had to take unconventional &#8230; extraordinary measures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/australia-breaking-news-today-live-russia-ukraine-updates-latest-headlines-august-16-2022\/a144886d-0a21-4b17-b0c9-b8bde8bb556e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 9News staffAugust 15, 2022 10:32 p.m Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison today defended holding three additional Cabinet portfolios in secret while in power. He called into Ben Fordham&#8217;s 2GB radio show this morning, insisting he had to take &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; measures during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. &#8220;It was a safeguard in terms of how we were making decisions, you know, at a pretty extraordinary time,&#8221; he said. He added that it was an &#8220;oversight&#8221; not to inform all cabinet colleagues affected by his additional portfolio responsibilities. &#8220;I think sometimes we forget what was going on two years ago&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}