{"id":327590,"date":"2025-12-05T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327590"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:22:11","slug":"minister-anika-wells-refuses-to-apologise-over-expensive-trip-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327590","title":{"rendered":"Minister Anika Wells refuses to apologise over expensive trip to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is this spending even remotely justifiable? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells for a September 2025 New York trip costing over $100,000 in taxpayer funds, including $94,818 for business-class flights for her and two staffers, plus $12,000 in accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, because it\u2019s \u201cdisclosed,\u201d that makes it fine? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"568\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 568;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jjwPFTxvQ9t3OIcE.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A very smug and somewhat arrogant performance by Anika Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A look into airfares on QANTAS to New York from Australia show a return Business Class Airfare at approximately AUD$19,000 per person.  Who went on the trip?  Could there be any truth to an all female trip?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These politicians do whatever they want with zero consequences and zero accountability. Anika Wells has shown no remorse or embarassment over this incredibly expensive trip to New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anika deserves to be held to account for exploitation of taxpayer funds! That\u2019s an obscene amount of money to waste while many Australians are struggling through a cost of living crisis. This woman is tone deaf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They clearly couldn\u2019t care less about the cost-of-living crisis or reckless government spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is this spending even remotely justifiable? Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells for a September 2025 New York trip costing over $100,000 in taxpayer funds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":327591,"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":[273,35],"tags":[15313,17200,18078,18943],"class_list":["post-327590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-anika-wells","tag-esafety-karen","tag-julie-inman-grant-2","tag-travel-rorts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327590","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=327590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327594,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327590\/revisions\/327594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}