{"id":42320,"date":"2020-06-18T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=42320"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:10:15","slug":"vic-premiers-sa-sledge-is-just-a-diversion-says-matt-abraham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/david-and-will-2\/vic-premiers-sa-sledge-is-just-a-diversion-says-matt-abraham\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic Premier\u2019s SA Sledge Is Just A Diversion, Says Matt Abraham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daniel Andrews\u2019 crack at SA could simply be the Victorian premier\u2019s attempt to move attention away from the branch stacking scandal currently engulfing his government, says Matthew Abraham.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After SA this week opened its borders to some states but not others, Mr Andrews said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be offensive to South Australians but why would you want to go there?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt told David &amp; Will on Thursday\u2019s FIVEAA breakfast show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really bad look when premiers start sledging\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cSA opening its borders to WA, Tasmania and the NT is a sensible thing to do because they don\u2019t have COVID cases.. Victoria does\u2026 they\u2019ve got something like 60 active COVID-19 cases and new ones being diagnosed.<\/p><p>\u201cAnd he [Andrews] has a massive branch stacking scandal going on over there, so he\u2019s looking for any sort of diversion and of course kicking SA is always a good one from Victoria.<\/p><p>\u201cBut that scandal is becoming so widespread and spreading into the federal ALP, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to have much impact if he\u2019s deciding to do it as a diversion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Andrews ministers have this week stepped down over the scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/interview-matthewabraham-18june2020\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Andrews\u2019 crack at SA could simply be the Victorian premier\u2019s attempt to move attention away from the branch stacking scandal currently engulfing his government, says Matthew Abraham. After SA this week opened its borders to some states but not others, Mr Andrews said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be offensive to South Australians but why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-42320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will-2","category-news","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vic Premier\u2019s SA Sledge Is Just A Diversion, Says Matt Abraham - 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\/david-and-will-2\/vic-premiers-sa-sledge-is-just-a-diversion-says-matt-abraham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vic Premier\u2019s SA Sledge Is Just A Diversion, Says Matt Abraham\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Andrews\u2019 crack at SA could simply be the Victorian premier\u2019s attempt to move attention away from the branch stacking scandal currently engulfing his government, says Matthew Abraham. 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