{"id":921141,"date":"2026-10-08T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921141\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:54:46","slug":"government-and-rba-pulling-in-opposite-directions-sp-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921141\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Government and RBA pulling in opposite directions&#8217;, S&#038;P warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE ECONOMIC WARNINGS<\/p>\n<p>The faltering state of the economy, immigration policies, climate change and AI continue to be the dominant themes of the week.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/aapnews.aap.com.au\/news\/ratings-agency-warns-on-record-government-spending\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAP<\/a> reports this morning that federal government payments hit 26.9% of GDP in the 2025\/26 financial year, the highest level in 40 years (except during Covid). The newswire says S&amp;P Global Ratings has warned the near-record levels of government spending could threaten the country\u2019s fiscal health in the long run should things take a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORE ECONOMIC WARNINGS The faltering state of the economy, immigration policies, climate change and AI continue to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[155074,64,63,68825,99,68,27305,489010,164,17265,9281,60504],"class_list":["post-921141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-angus-taylor","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barnaby-joyce","tag-business","tag-climate-change","tag-coalition","tag-crikey-worm","tag-economy","tag-hunter-valley","tag-immigration","tag-one-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921141","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=921141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}