{"id":28901,"date":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nick-xenophon-drops-explosive-new-plan-for-sa\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"nick-xenophon-drops-explosive-new-plan-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/nick-xenophon-drops-explosive-new-plan-for-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Xenophon Drops Explosive New Plan For SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SA Best leader Nick Xenophon is proposing a swag of changes to how the state is run &#8212; including cutting down the number of ministers from 14 to eight.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that we can do it with eight,\u201d Mr Xenophon told FIVEAA on Monday. \u201cYou would consolidate departments, you would streamline decision making, you would need fewer ministerial staffers, fewer spin doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a pretty tight cabinet\u2026 At the moment we have a bloated cabinet with 14 cabinet ministers\u2026 that really is excessive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we can do better with fewer ministers\u2026 it doesn\u2019t make sense that you have a separate minister for road safety&#8230; why that couldn\u2019t be brought within the department of transport\u2026 it beggars belief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is scope for reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Xenophon is also calling for longer parliamentary sitting periods and more estimates scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Best leader Nick Xenophon is proposing a swag of changes to how the state is run &#8212; including cutting down the number of ministers from 14 to eight. \u201cI think that we can do it with eight,\u201d Mr Xenophon told FIVEAA on Monday. \u201cYou would consolidate departments, you would streamline decision making, you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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":[244,231],"tags":[260],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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