{"id":28125,"date":"2024-07-30T23:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=28125"},"modified":"2024-07-30T23:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:39:42","slug":"australians-work-harder-under-albanese-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/australians-work-harder-under-albanese-cost-of-living-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians work harder under Albanese cost of living crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australians are desperately seeking extra jobs and extra hours of work as the country&#8217;s cost of living crisis charges on unabated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employment data released today shows the unemployment rate went up slightly to 4.1%, but more Australians are seeking work, more hours are being worked by those with jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this means that Australians are working harder and harder to make ends meet under the Albanese Government\u2019s cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor said hardworking Australians are suffering under the out of touch Albanese Labor Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia is in an entrenched household, consumer confidence and productivity recession after two years of Labor\u2019s homegrown inflation crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralians\u2019 standard of living has collapsed and after three failed budgets, it\u2019s clear the government has no plan to reverse it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor is completely out of touch. While the government keeps patting itself on the back, the reality is a record number of Australians are working multiple jobs to make ends meet. And we\u2019ve had a record number of businesses go insolvent in the last two years \u2013 over 18,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are in a cost of living and cost of doing business crisis, with no light at the end of the tunnel under the Albanese Labor Government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Michaelia Cash said Australians were feeling the pinch of the Albanese Government induced cost-of-living crisis more and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople are working harder than ever just to keep their heads above water,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses are under siege in this country. They are facing a perfect storm of rising costs, high interest rates and collapsing demand because Anthony Albanese\u2019s distracted and divided government has failed to deliver a proper economic plan,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr Albanese can\u2019t hide from the fact that his Government have caused this crisis because of his its\u2019 appalling management of our economy,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor small businesses it is a cost of doing business crisis which only adds to the cost of living for all Australians,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Government\u2019s pursuit and introduction of restrictive industrial relations policies is only making matters worse,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians are desperately seeking extra jobs and extra hours of work as the country&#8217;s cost of living crisis charges on unabated. Employment data released today shows the unemployment rate went up slightly to 4.1%, but more Australians are seeking work, more hours are being worked by those with jobs. All this means that Australians are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/australians-work-harder-under-albanese-cost-of-living-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australians work harder under Albanese cost of living crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28126,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28125\/revisions\/28126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}