{
  "id": 15411707,
  "title": "The SMH builds its own immigration budget lies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/the-smh-builds-its-own-immigration-budget-lies",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-18T13:01:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10/the-smh-builds-its-own-immigration-budget-lies/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The SMH’s Natassia Chrysanthos and Shane Wright have stepped up their lobbying for Big Australia immigration, claiming that One Nation’s immigration policy would “drive up national debt” by $275 billion, based on the Parliamentary Budget Office’s (PBO) Build Your Own Budget Tool: “Pauline Hanson’s three-year negative migration scenario would also reduce Australia’s economic output by The post The…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "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."
}