{"id":351632,"date":"2026-01-19T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351632"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:26:48","slug":"budget-office-reveals-cfa-grant-cuts-amid-victorian-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351632","title":{"rendered":"Budget Office Reveals CFA Grant Cuts Amid Victorian Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victoria&#8217;s Parliamentary Budget Office analysis shows CFA grants fell from $351.6 million in 2020-21 to $339.5 million in 2023-24, contradicting Premier Jacinta Allan&#8217;s claims of yearly funding increases since the 2020 reforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government insists overall CFA budgets have grown, citing extra $20.3 million this year plus prior investments in readiness and trucks, while opposition leaders accuse Allan of misleading volunteers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics point to ageing equipment like 800 outdated trucks, as a second PBO report adds to the dispute during ongoing bushfire recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics point to ageing equipment like 800 outdated trucks, as a second PBO report adds to the dispute during ongoing bushfire recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":348964,"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":[19221,8634,993,8],"class_list":["post-351632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-bushfires","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351632","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=351632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351633,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351632\/revisions\/351633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}