{"id":37843,"date":"2019-03-28T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37843"},"modified":"2019-03-28T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:22:53","slug":"how-to-sell-a-massacre-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37843","title":{"rendered":"How to sell a massacre Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.1310344828\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An official from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/australia.html\">Australia<\/a>&#8216;s far-right One Nation party offered to influence the country&#8217;s democracy as part of a bid to secure political funding from Koch Industries, a US energy giant, an Al Jazeera investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The offer was revealed in the second episode of Al Jazeera&#8217;s three-year investigation into the US and Australian gun lobbies, titled: How to sell a massacre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Secretly filmed footage, obtained by Al Jazeera, shows Steve Dickson, One Nation&#8217;s leader in the Australian state of Queensland, meeting with Catherine Haggett, director of Federal Affairs at Koch Industries, in Washington, DC, the US capital, in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson told Haggett: &#8220;What you can do to help us and it&#8217;s going to get down to money at the end of the day &#8230; we can change the voting system in our country, the way people operate, if we&#8217;ve got the money to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official from\u00a0Australia&#8217;s far-right One Nation party offered to influence the country&#8217;s democracy as part of a bid to secure political funding from Koch Industries, a US energy giant, an Al Jazeera investigation has found. The offer was revealed in the second episode of Al Jazeera&#8217;s three-year investigation into the US and Australian gun lobbies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}