{"id":390482,"date":"2021-11-16T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=3d24ffa4cfe3e69d4eb0e3a629292e28"},"modified":"2021-11-16T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:15:00","slug":"academic-forced-council-mergers-have-led-to-higher-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/16\/academic-forced-council-mergers-have-led-to-higher-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic: Forced council mergers have led to higher costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>New research from Professor Joseph Drew shows conclusively that the forcibly merged councils in New South Wales have not made the promised savings. <strong>Pip Hinman<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/academic-forced-council-mergers-have-led-higher-costs\">Green Left<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Professor Joseph Drew shows conclusively that the forcibly merged councils in New South Wales have not made the promised savings. Pip Hinman reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,432,38459,4,11668,33807],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390482"}],"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\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392098,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390482\/revisions\/392098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}