{"id":6941,"date":"2021-01-05T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=265557"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:25:44","slug":"in-too-deep-when-gladys-and-johns-rorts-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/05\/in-too-deep-when-gladys-and-johns-rorts-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"In too deep: when Gladys\u2019 and John\u2019s rorts go wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pool.rorts_-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rorts, Batemans Bay, pork barrelling, Gladys Berejiklian\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pool.rorts_-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pool.rorts_-1280x800.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pool.rorts_-980x613.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pool.rorts_-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2560px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Gladys Berejiklian's defence of pork barrelling will hardly enthuse ratepayers in Batemans Bay, or taxpayers for that matter. The local government debacle over a Leisure Centre, which got the tick from Deputy Premier John Barilaro in dubious circumstances is the quintessential object lesson in why governments should do their homework before they start throwing money around for political reasons. \u200bElizabeth Minter reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/batemans-bay-rort-goes-wrong\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gladys Berejiklian&#8217;s defence of pork barrelling will hardly enthuse ratepayers in Batemans Bay, or taxpayers for that matter. The local government debacle over a Leisure Centre, which got the tick from Deputy Premier John Barilaro in dubious circumstan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"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\/6941"}],"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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}