{"id":282827,"date":"2025-09-12T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=282827"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:04:35","slug":"claims-9-bunnings-tool-can-unlock-machete-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=282827","title":{"rendered":"Claims $9 Bunnings tool can unlock machete bins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The integrity of the Allan government\u2019s $13m machete bin program has been called into question amid fears the bins could be easily broken into with a $9 tool from Bunnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They shouldn\u2019t have gone for the cheap $300k bins. An extra $100k each would have included a lock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This whole embarrassing cringeworthy debacle is indicative of the kind of fucked up \u2018tin pot public service thinking\u2019 that is destroying our state.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image_2025-09-12_145111027-1024x668.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image_2025-09-12_145111027-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image_2025-09-12_145111027-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image_2025-09-12_145111027-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image_2025-09-12_145111027.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark Knight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How could anyone possibly take this seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The integrity of the Allan government\u2019s $13m machete bin program has been called into question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":282828,"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":[273,999,35,921],"tags":[16886,993,8],"class_list":["post-282827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-machete-ban","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282827","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=282827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282831,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282827\/revisions\/282831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}