{"id":327623,"date":"2025-12-08T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327623"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:18","slug":"minister-anika-wells-faces-questions-over-taxpayer-funded-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327623","title":{"rendered":"Minister Anika Wells Faces Questions Over Taxpayer-Funded Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Communications Minister Anika Wells drew scrutiny for trips including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">September New York visit to promote Australia&#8217;s under-16 social media ban at the UN<\/a>, costing almost $100,000 in business class flights approved by the Prime Minister&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">she claimed $2,845 for a Thredbo sports festival where she announced funding while her family skied<\/a> under family reunion rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other expenses covered Paris Olympics dinners and an Adelaide trip that included a friend&#8217;s birthday; Wells says all passed finance guidelines amid cost-of-living concerns, though the opposition calls them outrageous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, she claimed $2,845 for a Thredbo sports festival where she announced funding while her family skied under family reunion rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":327606,"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],"class_list":["post-327623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-anika-wells"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327623","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=327623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327629,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327623\/revisions\/327629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}