{"id":319777,"date":"2025-11-20T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=319777"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:34:25","slug":"libs-gala-axed-after-flood-of-cancellations-linked-to-leadership-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=319777","title":{"rendered":"Libs\u2019 gala axed after flood of cancellations linked to leadership coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A $1300-a-head Victorian Liberal Party fundraising dinner set for November 29 at Crown Palladium has been dumped after a flood of cancellations following Jess Wilson\u2019s appointment as the new leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything the Liberals do at the moment shows that unity is a huge issue. Whilst they keep fighting amongst themselves they are not a credible opposition. Any wonder voters are turning to alternate parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Liberal Leader Brad Battin has been treated horribly! Channel 9\u2019s Tom Steinfort asked \u201cWhat was Brad Battin doing wrong though? Why did you get rid of him?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberal Leader Jess Wilson &#8220;Brad was doing nothing wrong\u2026\u201d Then on Sky News \u201cBrad has done a terrific role\u201d. Then why tear him down and humiliate him? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Liberal leaders in 11 months. For Brad, he is the second shortest Liberal Leader with just 326 days in the job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything the Liberals do at the moment shows that unity is a huge issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":318570,"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":[999,35],"tags":[17250,18796,993,8,9126],"class_list":["post-319777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-brad-battin","tag-jess-wilson","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-liberal-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319777","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=319777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319780,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319777\/revisions\/319780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}