{"id":504536,"date":"2026-02-26T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:31:07","slug":"the-battle-to-tame-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504536\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle to tame inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battle lines are being drawn between Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and his new opposite number, Tim Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>There are less than three months until the Federal Budget is handed down and inflation is a hot topic on both sides of politics.<\/p>\n<p>The Government says it&#8217;s &#8216;focused on the challenge&#8217; but the Shadow Treasurer has accused the Government of throwing fuel on what he calls the &#8216;inflation fire&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Battle lines are being drawn between Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and his new opposite number, Tim Wilson. There are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,1480,99,164,5465,42086,3755,16776,167424,58247,37652],"class_list":["post-504536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-jim-chalmers","tag-podcast","tag-reserve-bank","tag-shadow-treasurer","tag-tim-wilson","tag-treasurer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504536","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=504536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}