{"id":260508,"date":"2021-06-21T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/?p=260508"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:36:36","slug":"chester-welcomes-adf-personnel-to-gippsland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/chester-welcomes-adf-personnel-to-gippsland\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESTER WELCOMES ADF PERSONNEL TO GIPPSLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the first Australian Defence Force Personnel on the ground in Gippsland to assist with recovery works.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester was in Gormandale to greet Colonel John Molnar and his crew who will be working on debris and tree removal, distributing generators to areas where power is still a problem and providing support to affected families.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said a contingent of Australian Defence Force personnel were deployed to the Newborough Army Reserve depot to help out with flood and storm recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur local crews have done a great job already but there\u2019s a lot of work to be done, and extra boots on the ground will make a difference,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crew received a briefing from Traralgon\u2019s Daniel Barr who works at DELWP in Yarram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonoel Molnar is a Gippslander, growing up in Traralgon and playing football for the North Gippsland Football League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to have Gippslanders coming back to our region to assist in the recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks everyone for your hard work to help people in the storm and flood affected areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the first Australian Defence Force Personnel on the ground in Gippsland to assist with recovery works. Mr Chester was in Gormandale to greet Colonel John Molnar and his crew who will be working on debris and tree removal, distributing generators to areas where power is still a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":260509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[46],"tags":[3883,390,3946,4006,152,275],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260508"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}