{"id":640192,"date":"2026-04-30T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:36:09","slug":"five-golf-courses-are-at-centre-of-australian-defence-force-property-sell-off-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640192\/","title":{"rendered":"Five golf courses are at centre of Australian Defence Force property sell-off backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans and defence personnel have warned the proposed sale of military-owned golf courses would damage mental health and fracture a key source of community support, leaving members priced out of other clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Richard Marles announced in February that the government would sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nzem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">67 military sites<\/a> following the release of an independent audit that found they had little strategic value.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veterans and defence personnel have warned the proposed sale of military-owned golf courses would damage mental health and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-640192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640192","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=640192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}