{
  "id": 10576073,
  "title": "Not nearly good enough: Chalmers’ budget trickery can’t hide growing loss of control",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/not-nearly-good-enough-chalmers-budget-trickery-cant-hide-growing",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T01:16:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crikey",
    "slug": "crikey",
    "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/interest-rate-rise-rba-jim-chalmers-2026-budget-outcome-deficit-government-spending/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In 2025-26, Labor lost control of its spending, and its rhetorical tricks can't hide it. It's having very clear impacts on inflation and interest rates, and at the worst possible time. The post Not nearly good enough: Chalmers’ budget trickery can’t hide growing loss of control appeared first on Crikey .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}