{"id":727563,"date":"2026-06-10T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727563\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:34:12","slug":"act-government-2026-27-budget-faces-1-billion-deficit-pressures-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727563\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT government: 2026-27 budget faces $1 billion deficit pressures | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nieve Walton\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nieve is the Canberra Times&#8217; education reporter, covering all levels from early education through to universities in the capital. Previously she was the political reporter at The Courier in Ballarat. Get in contact at nieve.walton@austcommunitymedia.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Nieve is the Canberra Times&#8217; education reporter, covering all levels from early education through to universities in the capital. Previously she was the political reporter at The Courier in Ballarat. Get in contact at nieve.walton@austcommunitymedia.com.au<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Polkinghorne\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Covering the Raiders, Cavalry, cycling and racing, plus everything else that involves sport in the ACT, for The Canberra Times. Basically I love sport and watching it is a full-time job. Email: david.polkinghorne@canberratimes.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Covering the Raiders, Cavalry, cycling and racing, plus everything else that involves sport in the ACT, for The Canberra Times. Basically I love sport and watching it is a full-time job. Email: david.polkinghorne@canberratimes.com.au<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jasper Lindell\" class=\"size-12 rounded-full md:size-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/w64_h64_fcrop.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times&#8217; Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times&#8217; Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nieve is the Canberra Times&#8217; education reporter, covering all levels from early education through to universities in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-727563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727563","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=727563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}