{"id":399131,"date":"2026-01-08T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399131\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:09:11","slug":"australians-distrust-albo-with-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399131\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians distrust Albo with the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As things currently stand, the Albanese government possesses the largest majority achieved by any postwar federal Labor government at the ballot box, holding 94 out of the lower house\u2019s 150 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, unlike other governments of the recent past that were heavily reliant on a broad range of Senate crossbenchers, Labor needs only the support of the Greens to pass whatever legislation it chooses through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1OlLm-australia-total-seats-won-at-federal-elections-labor-vs-coalition-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yet despite the Albanese government\u2019s giant victory at the ballot box, this is not reflected in the attitudes of the Australian people toward the government\u2019s running of the country or its management of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As things currently stand, the Albanese government possesses the largest majority achieved by any postwar federal Labor government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-399131","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\/399131","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=399131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}