{"id":130012,"date":"2025-09-09T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130012\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:42:14","slug":"peter-vlandys-keeps-spending-tight-irking-new-rugby-league-clubs-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130012\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter V\u2019landys keeps spending tight, irking new rugby league club\u2019s directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The directors of the Perth Bears gathered at North Sydney Oval in August to convene the second board meeting of the NRL\u2019s newest club. For footy, they\u2019re no slouches.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural nine-person board is chaired by former Liberal cabinet minister (and Scott Morrison consigliere) Ben Morton, with his former colleague (and Bears fan) Joe Hockey alongside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/no-ill-will-as-cash-converters-boss-signs-on-to-nrl-s-bears-20250629-p5mb5a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cash Converters\u2019 Peter Cummins<\/a>, legal academic Emma Garlett, former WA Cricket chief executive Christina Matthews, ex racing administrator John Dumesny, former copper Jacqueline Johnstone, North Sydney businessman Daniel Dickson and Nine broadcaster James Bracey (another Bears tragic).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The directors of the Perth Bears gathered at North Sydney Oval in August to convene the second board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-130012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}