{"id":12564,"date":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-senator-comes-clean-on-canberra-s-rooting-culture\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:00:00","slug":"former-senator-comes-clean-on-canberra-s-rooting-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-senator-comes-clean-on-canberra-s-rooting-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Senator Comes Clean On Canberra\u2019s \u201cRooting\u201d Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ex-senator Sam Dastyari has lifted the lid on a seedy side of political life in Australia\u2019s capital.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"350\" width=\"620\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sam-dastyari.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe reality is, the amount of rooting that goes on in a place like Canberra\u2026 In terms of unhealthy workplaces, it\u2019s one of the most unhealthy workplaces in the country,\u201d Dastyari told KIIS radio in Sydney.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou\u2019ve got 4000 people in this building called Parliament, which is mostly just journos, staffers, politicians, living in this strange world of kind of alcohol and late nights and sitting and everyone is telling each other how important they are all the time&#8230; all of it fuels this really weird environment.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked by the hosts if there was a lot of sleeping aroundin Canberra, Mr Dastyari said: \u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Dastyari\u2019s interview followed an explosive series of tweets in which he claimed everyone &#8212; \u201cAnd I mean EVERYONE in Federal Parliament knew about Vicki and Barnaby. Anyone who claims they didn\u2019t know Is either bullshitting or so out of touch they shouldn\u2019t be in Parliament\u201d.<\/h3>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1.Everyone. And I mean EVERYONE in Federal Parliament knew about Vicki and Barnaby. Anyone who claims they didn\u2019t know Is either bullshitting or so out of touch they shouldn\u2019t be in Parliament.<\/p>&mdash; Sam Dastyari (@samdastyari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samdastyari\/status\/962994136923058177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-senator Sam Dastyari has lifted the lid on a seedy side of political life in Australia\u2019s capital. \u201cThe reality is, the amount of rooting that goes on in a place like Canberra\u2026 In terms of unhealthy workplaces, it\u2019s one of the most unhealthy workplaces in the country,\u201d Dastyari told KIIS radio in Sydney. \u201cYou\u2019ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6792,"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-12564","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) - 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