{"id":17870,"date":"2025-07-24T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:26:08","slug":"liberals-create-leaners-not-lifters-just-like-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17870\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals create leaners, not lifters \u2013 just like Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They probably won\u2019t. But they should. Everyone attending the Albanese government\u2019s \u201cproductivity summit\u201d should read Leviathan on the Rampage, a report by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5mgu0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Robert Carling<\/a> from the Centre for Independent Studies that was released this week.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper headline to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/culture-of-dependency-lifts-spending-to-highest-level-since-wwii-20250722-p5mgu0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> The Australian Financial Review\u2019s coverage of the research<\/a> did more than just sum up the report\u2019s findings. It also brilliantly encapsulates what has happened to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They probably won\u2019t. But they should. Everyone attending the Albanese government\u2019s \u201cproductivity summit\u201d should read Leviathan on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-17870","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\/17870","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=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}