{"id":2839,"date":"2017-01-16T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T06:47:12","slug":"perks-for-politicians-and-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/16\/perks-for-politicians-and-public-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Perks for Politicians and Public Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

Today’s post a fairly parochial, so please forgive me.<\/p>\n

In recent times Australian news has been filled with stories about politicians and public servants getting “freebies”. Some of these may be from lobbyists. Some may be from commercial interests. The general consensus seems to be “It’s not fair that they get such freebies.” Such freebies include overseas trips, dinners, attendance at sporting events and so on. I wish to add my two cents’ worth.<\/p>\n

Before I do so I want to provide examples from my very own experience. I apologise that I will not use actual organisational names or reveal actual identities in doing so. Basically I don’t want to get myself in trouble. But everything I write is true and I saw it with my own two eyes.<\/p>\n

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  1. At the beginning of the 1990s I was the Special Events Coordinator for a major Australian University. Graduate and Community Relations (my office) had the mission of engaging graduates and business with the purpose of increasing donations to that University. I’m not talking about a few measly dollars either.
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    Hi all, Today’s post a fairly parochial, so please forgive me. In recent times Australian news has been filled with stories about politicians and public servants getting “freebies”. Some of these may be from lobbyists. Some may be from commercial interests. The general consensus seems to be “It’s not fair that they get such freebies.” Such freebies include overseas trips, dinners, attendance at sporting events and so on. I wish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,67],"tags":[323,200],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miscellaneous-rantings","category-life","tag-australian-politics","tag-politics","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-15_14-49-42.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}