{"id":134501,"date":"2025-09-11T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134501\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:27:11","slug":"albo-spins-more-economic-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134501\/","title":{"rendered":"Albo spins more economic lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True to form, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to Twitter (X) to declare that \u201cAustralia has one of the fastest growing economies\u201d, \u201cunemployment is down, real wages are up\u201d, and \u201cthe private sector is continuing to drive economic growth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Albo-Tweet.png\" width=\"873\" height=\"768\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It is worth investigating each of these claims.<\/p>\n<p>First, on Australia\u2019s growth, Alex Joiner provided the real picture in the chart below. It shows Australia\u2019s per capita GDP growth lagging behind most developed nations over the past 10 quarters:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Real-GDP-comparison.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Per capita GDP growth comparison\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"True to form, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to Twitter (X) to declare that \u201cAustralia has one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-134501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134501","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=134501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}