{"id":344577,"date":"2026-03-17T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:11:08","slug":"tim-wilson-points-finger-at-government-over-interest-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344577\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Wilson points finger at government over interest rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia announced that interest rates will rise by 25 basis points.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson joined 3AW Mornings and was asked if he thinks government spending is responsible for the rise in inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately this is totally a consequence of debt spending by Jim Chalmers, \u201d Wilson said on 3AW Mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the FULL INTERVIEW with Tim Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to stop pouring debt petrol on the inflation fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: \u00a0Asanka Ratnayake\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia announced that interest rates will rise by 25 basis points. Federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-344577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}