{"id":776773,"date":"2020-01-05T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/05\/celebrities-lead-australia-bushfire-relief-aid\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:54:20","slug":"celebrities-lead-australia-bushfire-relief-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/05\/celebrities-lead-australia-bushfire-relief-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities lead Australia bushfire relief aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1573694235302.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-more-body\" data-reactid=\".28xdwwmuilw.1.e.0.0.0.5.1\"><!--sse--><!-- C-ON- TEXT_CONTENT_START --><\/p>\n<p>Canberra &#8211; Hollywood celebrities, singers and sports stars have led efforts to raise funds for firefighters\u00a0and bushfire victims in Australia, as\u00a0the conservative\u00a0government&#8217;s response comes under mounting criticism. <\/p>\n<p>World number one tennis player Ashleigh Barty\u00a0was the latest sports star to join fundraising efforts, pledging to donate all of her Brisbane International prize money.\u00a0The event, which\u00a0starts Monday, has a top prize of\u00a0250,000 US dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Celeste Barber, an Australian comedian, has already raised a whopping 16 million US dollars to help the firefighters battle the deadly bushfires in just two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s almost twice as much money as [Prime Minister Scott Morrison] allocated for the entire year (and that was after cutting funding to them),&#8221; Australian author Clementine Ford said on her Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".28xdwwmuilw.0.1d\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {\n                        if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {\n                           n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                        fbq('init', '794201197427829');\n                        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n                           <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".28xdwwmuilw.1.4\">(function(d, s, id) {\n                    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n                    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n                    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n                    js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9\";\n                    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n                  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\" id=\"facebook-jssdk\" async=\"\" data-reactid=\".28xdwwmuilw.1.u\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra &#8211; Hollywood celebrities, singers and sports stars have led efforts to raise funds for firefighters\u00a0and bushfire victims in Australia, as\u00a0the conservative\u00a0government&#8217;s response comes under mounting criticism. 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