{"id":76907,"date":"2026-04-02T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/02\/new-zealand-doctor-invoices-us-embassy-fuel-prices-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:34:59","slug":"payment-expected-within-seven-days-new-zealand-doctor-invoices-us-embassy-for-rising-petrol-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76907","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Payment expected within seven days\u2019: New Zealand doctor invoices US embassy for rising petrol costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Dunphy sends bill for almost $3,000, along with letter saying \u2018The USA is responsible for this and therefore should be held accountable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand doctor has asked the US embassy in Wellington to reimburse his clinic for petrol costs, saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his administration started an \u201cavoidable war\u201d and should foot the bill for rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shane Dunphy, of Onslow medical centre in New Zealand\u2019s capital, requested the US embassy pay his centre NZ$2,790.95 (US$1,597) for the cost of petrol vouchers provided to staff to help pay for transport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/02\/new-zealand-doctor-invoices-us-embassy-fuel-prices-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Dunphy sends bill for almost $3,000, along with letter saying \u2018The USA is responsible for this and therefore should be held accountable\u2019A New Zealand doctor has asked the US embassy in Wellington to reimburse his clinic for petrol costs, saying D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,415,56,449,45,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-new-zealand","category-oil","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76907","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76907\/revisions\/76908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}