{
  "id": 13902286,
  "title": "Government must cut spending, but not where it affects me",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/government-must-cut-spending-but-not-where-it-affects-me",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-12T07:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/government-must-cut-spending-but-not-where-it-affects-me-20261012-p614kg.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With so many factors involved in the rising cost of living, maybe we need to ask a different question. Not who’s to blame, but which purse strings to pull.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "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."
}