{"id":412032,"date":"2021-12-01T05:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=333737"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:23:37","slug":"the-hidden-world-of-power-and-influence-donors-pay-top-dollar-for-a-seat-at-ministers-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/01\/the-hidden-world-of-power-and-influence-donors-pay-top-dollar-for-a-seat-at-ministers-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden world of power and influence: donors pay top dollar for a seat at Ministers\u2019 table"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/political-donations.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"political donations\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/political-donations.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/political-donations-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>\u201cWe don\u2019t live in a democracy anymore. We live in a plutocracy. The Australian political system is a wholly owned subsidiary of big corporations.\u201d An investigation reveals donors paying top dollar at political fundraising events for exclusive access to ministers\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/the-hidden-world-of-power-and-influence-donors-pay-top-dollar-for-a-seat-at-ministers-table\/\">Michael West Media<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t live in a democracy anymore. We live in a plutocracy. The Australian political system is a wholly owned subsidiary of big corporations.\u201d An investigation reveals donors paying top dollar at political fundraising events for exclusive access to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412032"}],"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=412032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412033,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412032\/revisions\/412033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}