{"id":890493,"date":"2026-09-13T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890493\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:26:18","slug":"jess-wilsons-collingwood-football-club-credentials-questioned-ahead-of-victorian-state-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890493\/","title":{"rendered":"Jess Wilson\u2019s Collingwood Football Club credentials questioned ahead of Victorian state election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson is working hard to add an everyman flavour to her inner-east suburbs\u2019 reputation ahead of November\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/ignore-them-at-your-peril-business-war-games-the-rise-of-one-nation-20260903-p60u5u\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state election<\/a>. On Friday, this involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/bnpwK_kbTxk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">draping herself in a Magpies scarf on TV<\/a> to preach her birthright devotion to the traditionally working-class Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson was born on Anzac Day 1990 at the Mercy Hospital, she said, just a drop punt from Collingwood\u2019s home ground at the MCG. Such is the commitment of her dad, former Liberal MP Ron Wilson, to the club, that he even headed down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/nfl-moves-into-mcg-but-members-punted-20260910-p60w6q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hallowed turf<\/a> within hours of her birth!<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson is working hard to add an everyman flavour to her inner-east suburbs\u2019 reputation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-890493","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\/890493","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=890493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}