{"id":605,"date":"2009-02-16T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2009\/02\/16\/governor-general-and-prime-minister-invited-to-visit-fire-affected-areas\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:16:52","slug":"governor-general-and-prime-minister-invited-to-visit-fire-affected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/governor-general-and-prime-minister-invited-to-visit-fire-affected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND PRIME MINISTER INVITED TO VISIT FIRE AFFECTED AREAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>February 16, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has today invited the Governor-General and Prime Minister to visit the region and inspect fire affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said it was important that our nation\u2019s leaders gained a first hand understanding of the challenge which lies ahead for communities rebuilding after the fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have asked both the Governor-General and the Prime Minister to travel to Gippsland as soon as possible and meet with communities which have been affected by these tragic fires\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to take an enormous effort to rebuild our communities and it is essential that we have bipartisan support in the weeks and months ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several political leaders have visited the region including Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull and Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>February 16, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has today invited the Governor-General and Prime Minister to visit the region and inspect fire affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said it was important that our nation\u2019s leaders gained a first hand understanding of the challenge which lies ahead for communities rebuilding after the fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have asked both the Governor-General and the Prime Minister to travel to Gippsland as soon as possible and meet with communities which have been affected by these tragic fires\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}