{"id":68567,"date":"2024-06-19T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68567"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:45:46","slug":"pm-labels-attack-on-josh-burns-office-in-melbourne-as-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68567","title":{"rendered":"PM labels attack on Josh Burns&#8217; office in Melbourne as &#8216;serious&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Federal MP Josh Burns has described a vandalism attack on his Melbourne electoral office as &#8220;ugly and reckless&#8221;, while the Prime Minister has also called out the &#8220;serious&#8221; incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \ufeffMP for \ufeffMacnamara&#8217;s office on Barkly Street in St Kilda was extensively damaged after a group of six people smashed windows and painted walls with anti-Semitic slogans about 3.20am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police confirmed the group \ufeffalso started two small fires: one beside the office entrance and another outside the door facing the street where residential apartments are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-ab109405-a351-4d6a-aef5-67b5b23f95e8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68568\" style=\"width:843px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-ab109405-a351-4d6a-aef5-67b5b23f95e8.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-ab109405-a351-4d6a-aef5-67b5b23f95e8-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vandals painted walls with anti-Semitic slogans.&nbsp;(Photograph by Chris Hopkins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeff&#8221;Zionism is fascism&#8221; was spray-painted across the front of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeffBurns fronted media today to condemn the &#8220;politically motivated attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was reckless vandalism of my office,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal MP Josh Burns has described a vandalism attack on his Melbourne electoral office as &#8220;ugly and reckless&#8221;, while the Prime Minister has also called out the &#8220;serious&#8221; incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68568,"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":[273,999,35],"tags":[8722,10647,993,8],"class_list":["post-68567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-crime","tag-josh-burns","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68569,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567\/revisions\/68569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}