{"id":118734,"date":"2025-09-04T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:19:15","slug":"the-economy-is-growing-but-will-you-be-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118734\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy is Growing &#8211; But Will You Be Better Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest figures show Australia\u2019s economy is growing again &#8211; in the words of one economist, \u201cslowly crawling out of its hole.\u201d GDP and other indicators are pointing upward, suggesting things are getting better.<\/p>\n<p>But if you don\u2019t feel any richer, you\u2019re not alone. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what do the national accounts really tell us about the state of the economy? And what do they leave out about life on the ground?<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Gordon &#8211; Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Honorary Professor at ANU<\/p>\n<p>Matthew McKenzie &#8211; Energy and economics reporter with the West Australian\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Get in touch:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We read all of your emails, and appreciate each one. Please keep them coming <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/the-economy-stupid\/the-economy-is-growing-but-will-you-be-better-off\/mailto:theeconomy.stupid@abc.net.au\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">theeconomy.stupid@abc.net.au<\/a>\u00a0or use the #PeterMartinEconomy on Instagram to get our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest figures show Australia\u2019s economy is growing again &#8211; in the words of one economist, \u201cslowly crawling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,17119,84003,7054],"class_list":["post-118734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-michelle-bullock","tag-rba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}