{"id":11795,"date":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/penny-wong-caught-up-in-budget-scandal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:00:00","slug":"penny-wong-caught-up-in-budget-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/penny-wong-caught-up-in-budget-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wong Caught Up In Budget Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SA Senator Penny Wong reportedly took confidential papers out of the official budget lockup.<\/h3>\n<p>According to The Daily Telegraph, Ms Wong then refused to leave her office when she was pursued by an official.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhen Senator Wong slipped out of the lockup with the Budget papers at around 7pm, the Treasury Security head went to her office to retrieve the documents,\u201d the paper reports.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut Senator Wong did not come out of her office to speak with him and declined to return the papers.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow Labor politicians Chris Bowen and Jenny Macklin have also been accused of speaking to young female Treasury officials in an \u201caggressive\u201d and \u201cargumentative\u201d way on budget night.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Penny Wong took confidential Budget papers from the official lockup in a major security breach \u2014 then refused to come out of her office when the head of Treasury Security arrived to retrieve the documents. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharriMarkson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SharriMarkson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hkQb2vyuzv\">https:\/\/t.co\/hkQb2vyuzv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailytelegraph\/status\/998675301113778177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Senator Penny Wong reportedly took confidential papers out of the official budget lockup. According to The Daily Telegraph, Ms Wong then refused to leave her office when she was pursued by an official. \u201cWhen Senator Wong slipped out of the lockup with the Budget papers at around 7pm, the Treasury Security head went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Penny Wong Caught Up In Budget Scandal - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/penny-wong-caught-up-in-budget-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penny Wong Caught Up In Budget Scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SA Senator Penny Wong reportedly took confidential papers out of the official budget lockup. 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