{"id":449806,"date":"2026-06-09T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=449806"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:00:08","slug":"ditch-the-witch-billboards-target-victorian-premier-jacinta-allan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=449806","title":{"rendered":"Ditch the Witch Billboards Target Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign, running for six weeks ahead of Victoria&#8217;s November 28 state election, costs $105,000 and was funded by local business owners like brothel proprietor Franco Puleo, who says it captures public frustration without sexism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allan condemned it as secret, well-funded sexism that normalises attacks on women in politics, drawing support from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, former PM Julia Gillard, and even Liberal deputy Jane Hume. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-449809\" style=\"width:416px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While One Nation&#8217;s Pauline Hanson brushed it off as tough talk leaders must handle, the ads highlight tensions over policy critiques versus personal attacks amid Labor&#8217;s polling slump on cost-of-living and crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan condemned it as secret, well-funded sexism that normalises attacks on women in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":271597,"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":[8634,8],"class_list":["post-449806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449806","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=449806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449810,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449806\/revisions\/449810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}