{"id":16286,"date":"2016-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leon-bignell-rips-into-local-member-tim-whetstone\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:00:00","slug":"leon-bignell-rips-into-local-member-tim-whetstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/leon-bignell-rips-into-local-member-tim-whetstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Bignell rips into local member Tim Whetstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Minister for Agriculture Leon Bignell has accused Tim Whetstone of playing politics over Riverland farmers who are still waiting for government assistance.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cTim Whetstone is playing politics with this,\u201d Mr Bignell told Pilko on FIVEAA, \u201cwhich is the worst thing you can do in a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with these since the Wangary fire back in 2005, and what you need to do is take the politics out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe agreed to do that\u2026 now six weeks later we see through his own ego he just wants to get on the radio all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/299226593&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/smashed-riverland-farmers-are-still-waiting-for-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mr Bignell said claims made by Mr Whetstone<\/strong><\/a> that the Victorian state government lodged assistance claims well before SA were untrue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo they didn\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cAgain he\u2019s not telling the truth here. The Victorians put their application in just one day before we put ours in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not telling the truth on a whole lot things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a structure in place &#8212; a structure that\u2019s worked for the Pinery bushfire, for the Virginia floods, for the biggest storm we\u2019ve had in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim said on the first day of this disaster he wouldn\u2019t play politics with it. Unfortunately he is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/299236537&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/this-adelaide-oval-security-guard-caught-a-six-without-moving-a-muscle\"><strong>WATCH &#8212; ADELAIDE OVAL SECURITY GUARD TAKES A CLASSIC CATCH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adam-gilchrist-hands-adelaide-a-huge-compliment\"><strong>CRICKET LEGEND HANDS ADELAIDE A MASSIVE COMPLIMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Agriculture Leon Bignell has accused Tim Whetstone of playing politics over Riverland farmers who are still waiting for government assistance. \u201cTim Whetstone is playing politics with this,\u201d Mr Bignell told Pilko on FIVEAA, \u201cwhich is the worst thing you can do in a disaster.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with these since the Wangary fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15557,"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-16286","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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