{
  "id": 19576420,
  "title": "Victorian Treasury warns of credit rating downgrade",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/victorian-treasury-warns-of-credit-rating-downgrade",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-12T00:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/11/victorian-treasury-warns-of-credit-rating-downgrade/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Victoria’s Department of Treasury & Finance (DTF) will release a pre-election budget update on Thursday. Among other things, it will include the latest figures on the state’s debt burden, with net debt now forecast to top $197 billion in mid-2030. Heavily redacted documents released via Freedom of Information laws show that the DTF had warned The post Victorian Treasury warns of credit rating…",
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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."
}