{"id":16530,"date":"2021-11-22T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:42:46","slug":"powerful-australian-politician-steps-aside-as-a-minister-after-losing-historic-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/powerful-australian-politician-steps-aside-as-a-minister-after-losing-historic-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Australian politician steps aside as a minister after losing historic no confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><strong>SA Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman, steps down<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ms Chapman received a &#8216;vote of no confidence&#8217; last Thursday<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Vote is a result of failed $40 million Kangaroo Island development application<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Parliamentary\u00a0committee recommended her suspension over conflict of interest<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Australian+Associated+Press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australian Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 09:31 AEDT, 22 November 2021 | Updated: 09:58 AEDT, 22 November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south-australia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Australia<\/a>&#8216;s Deputy Premier and Attorney-General will temporarily stand aside from her roles after state parliament passed a vote of no confidence in her but maintains she has done nothing wrong and will not resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vickie Chapman has been engulfed by conflict-of-interest claims after a parliamentary inquiry last week found she had repeatedly misled parliament over a rejected Kangaroo Island development application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Chapman told The Advertiser she&#8217;s standing aside to allow SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines to conduct an &#8216;independent&#8217; investigation into her rejection in August of the application to build a timber port on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/powerful-australian2.jpg?resize=640%2C343&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/powerful-australian2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/powerful-australian2.jpg?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption><strong>South Australia&#8217;s Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman (pictured), has stood aside from her positions during an independent investigation into conflict-of-interest claims.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Chapman&#8217;s family owns a rental property on the island near the rejected development and was accused of therefore having a conflict of interest when she made that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10227799\/Vickie-Chapman-South-Australians-deputy-premier-steps-aside-minister.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman, steps down Ms Chapman received a &#8216;vote of no confidence&#8217; last Thursday Vote is a result of failed $40 million Kangaroo Island development application Parliamentary\u00a0committee recommended her suspension over conflict of interest By Australian Associated Press Published: 09:31 AEDT, 22 November 2021 | Updated: 09:58 AEDT, 22 November&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/powerful-australian-politician-steps-aside-as-a-minister-after-losing-historic-no-confidence-vote\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Powerful Australian politician steps aside as a minister after losing historic no confidence vote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[93],"tags":[4948,4936,94,4949,4951,3619,4950],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/powerful-australian2.jpg?fit=640%2C343&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16532,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions\/16532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}