{"id":453322,"date":"2026-02-02T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453322\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:19:07","slug":"three-cheers-for-australias-energy-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453322\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for Australia&#8217;s energy patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennie George is a former president of the ACTU and a former Labor federal MP who represented Throsby from 2001 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, George has taken a stand against her former colleagues to exert pressure on the Albanese government regarding gas policy, renewables subsidies, and energy security.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/nation\/slush-fund-risk-over-government-renewable-investments-top-fund-managers\/news-story\/40bfab8011cffc75ece8129f950f7a50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> published in The Australian last week, George blasted the secrecy surrounding renewable subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennie George is a former president of the ACTU and a former Labor federal MP who represented Throsby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-453322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453322","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=453322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}