{"id":26588,"date":"2025-07-28T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26588\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:01:08","slug":"if-you-want-a-job-work-for-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26588\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want a job, work for the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released a stunning analysis showing that spending by federal and state governments on initiatives such as the NDIS, aged care, and child care has reached its highest level since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Total spending on the NDIS, disability support pensions, and carer payments now exceeds $90 billion a year (more than 3% of GDP).<\/p>\n<p>As a result, more than half of Australians now derive over half of their income from the government through public-sector wages, welfare benefits, or subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released a stunning analysis showing that spending by federal and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-26588","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\/26588","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=26588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}