{"id":36107,"date":"2025-08-28T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-australian-politician-raises-fist-at-journalist\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:25:06","slug":"moment-australian-politician-raises-fist-at-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-australian-politician-raises-fist-at-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Australian politician raises fist at journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Australian politician Bob Katter raised his fist at a journalist during a press conference after he was asked about his Lebanese heritage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Katter, 80, called the press conference to explain his planned attendance at the March for Australia, an anti-immigration rally scheduled for this weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">After the journalist referenced Katter&#8217;s Lebanese heritage, Katter said: &#8220;Don&#8217;t say that! Because that irritates me, and I&#8217;ve punched blokes in the mouth for saying that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cy08z83n562o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian politician Bob Katter raised his fist at a journalist during a press conference after he was asked about his Lebanese heritage. Katter, 80, called the press conference to explain his planned attendance at the March for Australia, an anti-immigration rally scheduled for this weekend. After the journalist referenced Katter&#8217;s Lebanese heritage, Katter said: &#8220;Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[594,11601,7870,2388,6086,2540],"class_list":["post-36107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian","tag-fist","tag-journalist","tag-moment","tag-politician","tag-raises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36109,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36107\/revisions\/36109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}