{"id":16046,"date":"2021-01-30T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=268257"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:49:31","slug":"whither-democracy-political-donations-triple-as-aec-prepares-2021-data-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/30\/whither-democracy-political-donations-triple-as-aec-prepares-2021-data-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither Democracy? Political donations triple as AEC prepares 2021 data drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/democracy.rotting.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Australia democracy\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/democracy.rotting.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/democracy.rotting-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>When the Australian Electoral Commission drops its political donations data tomorrow, it will almost certainly show that corporate donations are rising at an alarming clip and that Australia is tracking the US. Stephanie Tran and Michael West report on the extraordinary rise of money in politics.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/whither-democracy-political-donations-triple-as-aec-prepares-2021-data-drop\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Australian Electoral Commission drops its political donations data tomorrow, it will almost certainly show that corporate donations are rising at an alarming clip and that Australia is tracking the US. Stephanie Tran and Michael West report on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1295,"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\/16046"}],"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\/1295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16047,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}