{"id":913991,"date":"2026-10-02T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:06:09","slug":"cba-chief-matt-comyns-bold-blueprint-to-lift-living-standards-has-tips-on-ai-gst-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913991\/","title":{"rendered":"CBA chief Matt Comyn\u2019s bold blueprint to lift living standards has tips on AI, GST, risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s top banker, Matt Comyn, has urged federal and state governments to tighten their belts and make hard choices to boost productivity, calling for a tax pivot towards consumption and a concerted push to make Australia a second home for US artificial intelligence labs.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Bank boss said Treasurer Jim Chalmers had made progress since his Economic Reform Roundtable last year, but the 2026 budget could not be the end of the story and more was needed to reverse stagnant productivity growth and falling living standards.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country\u2019s top banker, Matt Comyn, has urged federal and state governments to tighten their belts and make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-913991","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\/913991","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=913991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}