{"id":69694,"date":"2021-03-08T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=270275"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:00:26","slug":"aged-care-giants-extort-government-for-funding-hike-threaten-campaign-in-marginal-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/08\/aged-care-giants-extort-government-for-funding-hike-threaten-campaign-in-marginal-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Aged care giants extort government for funding hike, threaten campaign in marginal seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/aged-care-scandal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"aged care royal commission\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/aged-care-scandal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/aged-care-scandal-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Australia's biggest private and corporatised charities in aged care are threatening the government with a political campaign if they don't get more money, on top of the $21 billion in government funding they get already. Throwing money at large providers has not worked, write Elizabeth Minter and Dr Sarah Russell, in a call for greater transparency and significant reform for the sector.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/aged-care-giants-extort-government-for-funding-hike-threaten-campaign-in-marginal-seats\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s biggest private and corporatised charities in aged care are threatening the government with a political campaign if they don&#8217;t get more money, on top of the $21 billion in government funding they get already. Throwing money at large provide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69694"}],"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=69694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69695,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69694\/revisions\/69695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}