{"id":77605,"date":"2025-10-16T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:56:07","slug":"is-fear-behind-labors-super-sized-backdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/77605\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;fear&#8217; behind Labor&#8217;s super-sized backdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Treasurer capitulated on Labor&#8217;s proposed super tax changes this week, but while Jim Chalmers fronted the media for the fallout, was the backdown actually driven by Anthony Albanese?<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Senior Liberal James Paterson has laid out his vision for the future of the party and cautioned against splitting. But the Coalition finds itself wedged between Pauline Hanson&#8217;s One Nation and Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform on the right, and the Teals on the left &#8211; so can they find a middle path and stay together?<\/p>\n<p>And as Anthony Albanese gets ready to head to the US, what&#8217;s on the agenda for his long-awaited meeting with Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Got a burning question?<\/p>\n<p>Got a burning political query? Send a short voice recording to PK and Mel \u00a0for Question Time at <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/politics-now\/is-fear-behind-labor-s-super-sized-backdown-\/mailto:thepartyroom@abc.net.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thepartyroom@abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Treasurer capitulated on Labor&#8217;s proposed super tax changes this week, but while Jim Chalmers fronted the media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-77605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77605","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=77605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}