{"id":333771,"date":"2025-12-07T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:51:17","slug":"cheaper-housing-is-the-antidote-for-falling-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333771\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper housing is the antidote for falling fertility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Treasurer Peter Costello has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-12-04\/peter-costello-urges-government-to-consider-new-baby-bonus\/106101512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told an e61 Institute event in Sydney<\/a> that the federal government should consider reintroducing the baby bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Costello\u2019s 2002 budget introduced it, giving parents $3,000, but it was wound back about a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s fertility rate is now at a near-record low of 1.48 births per woman, with the e61 institute having released a report highlighting the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Treasurer Peter Costello has told an e61 Institute event in Sydney that the federal government should consider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-333771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333771","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=333771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}