{"id":682216,"date":"2026-05-20T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:08:09","slug":"yes-the-afr-is-desperate-to-bag-the-budget-but-this-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682216\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the AFR is desperate to bag the budget \u2014 but this desperate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know the Australian Financial Review\u2019s attitude toward tax reform: that it\u2019s not really tax reform unless it rewards the paper\u2019s wealthy, elderly readers. If it\u2019s not from the Greedy Boomer region of France, it\u2019s just sparkling tax reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But so febrile has the AFR been in opposition to the Albanese government\u2019s modest reforms to capital gains tax, negative gearing and the great tax rort of trusts that it\u2019s skewed its coverage of other issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, US correspondent Jessica Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/yields-hit-15-year-high-as-bond-investors-damn-radical-budget-20260519-p5zyiw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on a rise in Australian bond yields on Monday with some quotes from Sydney-based Australian money man Richard Coppleson, who attacked Labor\u2019s \u201cradical\u201d budget for \u201ctriggering a sharp sell-off in 10-year bonds over fears that prolonged, heavy government spending will stoke inflation and saddle future generations with debt\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know the Australian Financial Review\u2019s attitude toward tax reform: that it\u2019s not really tax reform unless it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[321900,64,63,5471,99,164,271968,187186],"class_list":["post-682216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-2026-federal-budget","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-financial-review","tag-fiscal-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682216","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=682216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}