{"id":1021,"date":"2025-03-13T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/australia-news-live-wong-tells-influencer-leave-the-baby-wombat-alone-over-controversial-video-dutton-responds-to-reports-of-coalition-disquiet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:17","slug":"australia-news-live-wong-tells-influencer-leave-the-baby-wombat-alone-over-controversial-video-dutton-responds-to-reports-of-coalition-disquiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/australia-news-live-wong-tells-influencer-leave-the-baby-wombat-alone-over-controversial-video-dutton-responds-to-reports-of-coalition-disquiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news live: Wong tells influencer \u2018leave the baby wombat alone\u2019 over controversial video; Dutton responds to reports of Coalition disquiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign minister has criticised the US influencer who stole a baby wombat from its distressed mother and uploaded the footage to social media. Follow today\u2019s news live<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jacinta Allan defends new bail laws<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Victorian premier, <strong>Jacinta Allan, <\/strong>has defended her government\u2019s decision to implement what she says are the \u201ctoughest bail laws in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Through the attorney general, there has been contact made with Veronica Nelson\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>What happened through the circumstances around [her] death was an absolute tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Well it\u2019s a really disappointing. There\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s disappointing because it is an act of self-harm for the US, but it\u2019s also disappointing in the context of our relationship with the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/13\/australia-news-live-energy-prices-cost-of-living-tariffs-steel-aluminium-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign minister has criticised the US influencer who stole a baby wombat from its distressed mother and uploaded the footage to social media. Follow today\u2019s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Jacinta Allan defends new bail laws The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has defended her government\u2019s decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:49:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}