{"id":189773,"date":"2025-03-23T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T10:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189773"},"modified":"2025-03-23T20:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T10:43:52","slug":"melbourne-council-under-fire-for-mammoth-yes-vote-campaign-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189773","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne council under fire for mammoth \u2018yes\u2019 vote campaign spend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The City of Melbourne has copped fierce backlash after the total amount of ratepayer funds it spent spruiking a \u2018yes\u2019 vote in the 2023 Voice referendum was finally revealed. See the shock figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can a government spend tax payer dollars to support their causes? It should only be allowed to spend what it has raised in fundraising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$140000 of ratepayers money!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does Melbourne city voters do, they have voted for more of the same, Nick will only do the same, unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Melbourne has copped fierce backlash after the total amount of ratepayer funds it spent spruiking a \u2018yes\u2019 vote in the 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":189774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[13053,993,8],"class_list":["post-189773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-city-of-melbourne","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189776,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189773\/revisions\/189776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}