{"id":105174,"date":"2021-04-02T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=269190"},"modified":"2021-04-02T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:26:43","slug":"foreign-war-lobby-gets-a-billion-for-missiles-media-fawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/02\/foreign-war-lobby-gets-a-billion-for-missiles-media-fawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign war lobby gets a billion for missiles, media fawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APAC-News-ASPI-logo-on-Australian-hundred-dollar-bills.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"ASPI, the Australian Security Policy Institute\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APAC-News-ASPI-logo-on-Australian-hundred-dollar-bills.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APAC-News-ASPI-logo-on-Australian-hundred-dollar-bills-980x653.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/APAC-News-ASPI-logo-on-Australian-hundred-dollar-bills-480x320.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1200px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Scott Morrison\u2019s latest billion-dollar missile spend was deftly leaked to the media then talked up by ASPI whose sponsors have raked in $51 billion in Defence Department contracts while doling cash to the conflicted \u201cthink-tank\u201d. Marcus Rubenstein investigates.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/foreign-war-lobby-gets-a-billion-for-missiles-media-fawns\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison\u2019s latest billion-dollar missile spend was deftly leaked to the media then talked up by ASPI whose sponsors have raked in $51 billion in Defence Department contracts while doling cash to the conflicted \u201cthink-tank\u201d. Marcus Rubenstein inve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174"}],"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\/2434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105175,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174\/revisions\/105175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}