{"id":161105,"date":"2025-09-22T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161105\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:24:10","slug":"government-plays-the-wrong-role-in-australias-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161105\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plays the wrong role in Australia&#8217;s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the years following the conclusion of the mining boom, the size of government in Australia has continued to grow larger and larger.<\/p>\n<p>Conceptually, such growth is not necessarily a bad thing; if a government is wisely investing large amounts in infrastructure to boost the quality of service to the public and to enhance productivity, it can be a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be a positive if it were used to provide exemplary quality services to the public, leading to a healthier and better-adjusted populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the years following the conclusion of the mining boom, the size of government in Australia has continued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-161105","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\/161105","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=161105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}