{"id":148836,"date":"2025-09-17T03:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148836\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:30:06","slug":"jim-chalmers-layers-more-lipstick-on-pig-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148836\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Chalmers layers more lipstick on pig economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/wages-rise-more-than-business-profits-under-labor-20250911-p5mudz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world of Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers<\/a>, Australia\u2019s economy is strong, wages are booming, and living standards are rebounding fast:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Coalition\u2019s deliberate policy of wage suppression saw wages stagnate for the best part of a decade and living standards fall sharply, but we\u2019re turning that around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve managed to get inflation down and real wages up, unemployment has remained low and the economy has continued to grow\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the world of Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Australia\u2019s economy is strong, wages are booming, and living standards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-148836","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\/148836","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=148836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}