{"id":1017963,"date":"2023-03-08T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=276021"},"modified":"2023-03-08T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:56:25","slug":"fish-killing-mania-australias-war-against-the-common-carp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/08\/fish-killing-mania-australias-war-against-the-common-carp\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Killing Mania: Australia\u2019s War Against the Common Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country by his ancestors, and demanding their annihilation.\u00a0 During the near-lunatic display by Barnaby Joyce, even his own colleagues betrayed embarrassment and alarm at the full-throated shrieks of \u201ccarp, carp\u201d.\u00a0 With  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/fish-killing-mania-australias-war-against-the-common-carp\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/fish-killing-mania-australias-war-against-the-common-carp\/\">Fish Killing Mania: Australia\u2019s War Against the Common Carp<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/08\/fish-killing-mania-australias-war-against-the-common-carp\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country by his ancestors, and demanding their annihilation.\u00a0 During the near-lunatic displa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017964,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017963\/revisions\/1017964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}