{"id":899631,"date":"2026-09-21T03:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:44:10","slug":"australia-news-live-intergenerational-report-handed-down-by-jim-chalmers-says-spending-and-debt-will-be-better-than-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899631\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Intergenerational report handed down by Jim Chalmers, says spending and debt will be better than forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he hopes that the Intergenerational Report will vindicate Labor\u2019s changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing at the budget. <\/p>\n<p>He said that the May budget was the most serious about meeting intergenerational commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the pointiest part of that, the defining part of that, is really the housing market, which has locked young people out for too long,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not targeting a particular percentage, but we do want to shift the needle over time because, one of the key conclusions I\u2019m hoping that you draw from this intergenerational report, when you\u2019ve gone through it in detail, is that every page of this Intergenerational Report, in one way or another, justifies, validates, and I hope, one day vindicates the difficult decisions that we\u2019ve taken, reforming the housing market and reforming the tax system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he hopes that the Intergenerational Report will vindicate Labor\u2019s changes to capital gains tax&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-899631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899631","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=899631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}