{"id":28476,"date":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/new-state-liberal-mp-denies-rumour-about-his-defection\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"new-state-liberal-mp-denies-rumour-about-his-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/new-state-liberal-mp-denies-rumour-about-his-defection\/","title":{"rendered":"New State Liberal MP Denies Rumour About His Defection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>State upper house MP Dennis Hood says he was \u201cpromised nothing\u201d before his shock switch to the Liberal party and departure from Cory Bernardi\u2019s Australian Conservatives.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" width=\"482\" 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\/dennis-hood_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cOne thing that disappointed me yesterday was some commentators were suggesting there was some sort of self-interest involved here,\u201d Mr Hood told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Tuesday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cLeon, I can assure your listeners that is absolutely not true.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI have four years left on this term regardless. I could have easily stayed with Australian Conservatives, served out that term with no prospect of returning after that. Or I could make a move to a bigger party and make a more significant contribution, which is my desire.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing in it for me either way. I\u2019ve been promised nothing.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cNow I\u2019m going to be in the governing party I will have direct access to the decision makers on these issues. I\u2019m quite sure we\u2019ll be able to get better result more quickly because the government is accountable for these things and I\u2019m now part of that government.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019ll be more effective in this role and I\u2019m excited about that.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State upper house MP Dennis Hood says he was \u201cpromised nothing\u201d before his shock switch to the Liberal party and departure from Cory Bernardi\u2019s Australian Conservatives. \u201cOne thing that disappointed me yesterday was some commentators were suggesting there was some sort of self-interest involved here,\u201d Mr Hood told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Tuesday. \u201cLeon, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6309,"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":[249,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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