{"id":40745,"date":"2022-01-17T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T08:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/australian-minister-says-tonga-suffered-significant-damage-following-volcano-eruption"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T08:31:31","slug":"australian-minister-says-tonga-suffered-significant-damage-following-volcano-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40745","title":{"rendered":"Australian minister says Tonga suffered \u2018significant damage\u2019 following volcano eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zed Seselja says there are no reports of mass casualties but more will be known once assessment flights return to Australia and New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s minister for the Pacific, Zed Seselja, says initial reports suggest no mass casualties in Tonga following the eruption of a volcano that triggered a tsunami, but Australian police have visited beaches with significant damage and \u201chouses thrown around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand sent surveillance flights on Monday to assess the damage after Tonga was isolated from the rest of the world when Saturday\u2019s eruption blanketed the Pacific Island with ash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/australian-minister-says-tonga-suffered-significant-damage-following-volcano-eruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zed Seselja says there are no reports of mass casualties but more will be known once assessment flights return to Australia and New ZealandAustralia\u2019s minister for the Pacific, Zed Seselja, says initial reports suggest no mass casualties in Tonga follo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,56,280,2489,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano","category-tsunamis"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745\/revisions\/40746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}