{"id":27382,"date":"2025-07-28T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27382\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:51:08","slug":"victorian-farmers-protest-power-to-access-private-land-for-transmission-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27382\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian farmers protest power to access private land for transmission towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 28, 2025 \u2013 5.50pm<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>For almost five years, communities in western Victoria have been locked in a fierce battle over a proposed 190-kilometre transmission line that would carry renewable energy from the regions into Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>They say they have been lied to, manipulated and gaslit by AusNet, the company delivering the project; the Australian Energy Market Operator which manages transmission in Victoria; and the state Labor government.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 28, 2025 \u2013 5.50pm Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-27382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382","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=27382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}