{"id":595086,"date":"2026-04-09T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:37:17","slug":"anika-wells-returns-to-public-facing-duties-at-afl-gather-round-launch-event-in-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595086\/","title":{"rendered":"Anika Wells\u2019 returns to public-facing duties at AFL Gather Round launch event in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been four months since Anika Wells went to ground amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/pressure-mounts-on-wells-as-travel-expense-revelations-roll-on-20251208-p5nlud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scandal<\/a> about liberal use of taxpayer-funded travel entitlements and perks such as free footy and tennis tickets.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/minister-for-scarves-learns-a-lesson-about-judgment-20251208-p5nln9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">minister for sport<\/a> can\u2019t be expected to warm the bench forever, can she? Wells starred at the AFL\u2019s now-traditional Gather Round dinner at Penfolds Magill Estate in Adelaide on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been four months since Anika Wells went to ground amid a scandal about liberal use of taxpayer-funded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-595086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595086","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=595086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}