{"id":410321,"date":"2026-02-06T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410321\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:55:07","slug":"is-the-politics-of-an-rba-rate-rise-too-basic-australian-politics-podcast-australian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410321\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the politics of an RBA rate rise too \u2018basic\u2019? \u2013 Australian Politics podcast | Australian politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Reserve Bank\u2019s first rate hike in more than two years, Guardian Australia\u2019s political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the economics editor, Patrick Commins, and Lea Jurkovic, the economics correspondent at the Australian Financial Review, about the indicators that informed the central bank\u2019s decision this week.<\/p>\n<p>They also discuss the ongoing vulnerabilities in the economy, the missed opportunities when the RBA doesn\u2019t comment on government spending and the maturity lacking in the political debate about interest rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Reserve Bank\u2019s first rate hike in more than two years, Guardian Australia\u2019s political editor, Tom McIlroy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}