{"id":29164,"date":"2017-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nick-xenophon-has-made-an-explosive-accusation\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"nick-xenophon-has-made-an-explosive-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/nick-xenophon-has-made-an-explosive-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Xenophon Has Made An Explosive Accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Senator Nick Xenophon says he was told by staff from one of the major political parties that they are \u201cdigging up\u201d dirt on him.<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Xenophon has referred himself to the High Court following revelations he holds dual Britain citizenship via his Cypriot father.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cClearly it\u2019s become a game of chess where people are trying expose some obscure citizenship point,\u201d he told FIVEAA breakfast on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a couple of people from one particular party say our side is digging up stuff on you. But the senior people in that party assured me it wasn\u2019t them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really matter from my point of view and I don\u2019t take it personally &#8212; this is the nature of this business and I just have to get on with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I just think it\u2019s interesting that some people have a priority of checking out the ancestry of individual MPs to see if there\u2019s a technical point they can get them on when I think there are many more important things to be talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/Claim-Jake-Lever-Was-Untruthful-About-Meeting-With-Interstate-Club\"><strong>CLAIM JAKE LEVER WAS UNTRUTHFUL ABOUT MEETING WITH MELBOURNE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Lions-Coach-Fires-Up-After-Charlie-Cameron-Fallout\"><strong>LIONS COACH FIRES UP OVER CHARLIE CAMERON FALLOUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Nick Xenophon says he was told by staff from one of the major political parties that they are \u201cdigging up\u201d dirt on him. Mr Xenophon has referred himself to the High Court following revelations he holds dual Britain citizenship via his Cypriot father. \u201cClearly it\u2019s become a game of chess where people are trying [&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":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"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>Nick Xenophon Has Made An Explosive Accusation - 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\/show\/nick-xenophon-has-made-an-explosive-accusation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Xenophon Has Made An Explosive Accusation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Nick Xenophon says he was told by staff from one of the major political parties that they are \u201cdigging up\u201d dirt on him. 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