{"id":1988,"date":"2015-06-29T01:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2015\/06\/29\/peak-lobby-group-meets-with-gippsland-mp\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:51:50","slug":"peak-lobby-group-meets-with-gippsland-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/peak-lobby-group-meets-with-gippsland-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"PEAK LOBBY GROUP MEETS WITH GIPPSLAND MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Gippsland has capped off two successful days in Canberra after the region\u2019s peak lobby groups teamed up to advocate on Gippsland\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Committee for Gippsland, Gippsland Local Government Network and Regional Development Australia joined forces with local Federal politicians Darren Chester and Russell Broadbent to make sure Gippsland\u2019s priority projects were front and centre at Parliament House this week.<\/p>\n<p>One Gippsland met with 16 cabinet ministers, Senators and seniors advisers.<\/p>\n<p>They sought funding for major job-creating projects including the Macalister Irrigation District 2030 revitalisation plan, continued duplication of the Princes Highway and Latrobe Valley dental prosthetics clinic.<\/p>\n<p>They also used the opportunity to highlight the importance of major employers to the region such as Australian Paper\u2019s Maryvale Mill\u00a0 and a prosperous Federal University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Gippsland has capped off two successful days in Canberra after the region\u2019s peak lobby groups teamed up to advocate on Gippsland\u2019s behalf. Committee for Gippsland, Gippsland Local Government Network and Regional Development Australia joined forces with local Federal politicians Darren Chester and Russell Broadbent to make sure Gippsland\u2019s priority projects were front and centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[298],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}