{"id":944370,"date":"2026-10-28T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944370\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:04:10","slug":"inflation-hike-dilutes-aps-pay-offer-amid-renewed-attacks-on-size-and-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944370\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation hike dilutes APS pay offer amid renewed attacks on size and conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Public Service Commission\u2019s diminutive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/322345-ato-staff-unload-on-apsc-initial-3-aps-wage-offer-insulting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offer<\/a> of just 3% a year to federal public servants has been dealt another industrial body blow, after Australia\u2019s official inflation rate climbed to 4.3% in August on the back of chronically high fuel prices propelled by conflict between the United States and Iran and their associated proxies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transport costs \u2014 that\u2019s fuel at the bowser for the consumer and anything else that sucks diesel, petrol, avgas, jet fuel, or LPG \/ propane \u2014 jumped a thumping 3.0%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Public Service Commission\u2019s diminutive offer of just 3% a year to federal public servants has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[59115,64,63,99,21450,41882,164,5465,15388,114203,27993,169135],"class_list":["post-944370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asu","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-cpi","tag-cpsu","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-john-howard","tag-katy-gallagher","tag-psa","tag-wage-price-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944370","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=944370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}