{"id":3938,"date":"2019-10-18T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2019-10-18T20:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:45:52","slug":"government-runs-from-economic-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/government-runs-from-economic-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Runs From Economic Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a second consecutive day Scott Morrison has refused to defend his economic record by debating the state of the Australian economy in the Parliament.<br \/>\nAfter more than six years in office the Government has produced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The slowest economic growth in a decade;<\/li>\n<li>The worst wages growth on record;<\/li>\n<li>Almost two million Australians being unemployed or underemployed;<\/li>\n<li>A decline in GDP per capita last year, with flat growth in the last quarter;<\/li>\n<li>Record levels of household debt;<\/li>\n<li>Consumer confidence at a four-year low;<\/li>\n<li>Business confidence well below average; and<\/li>\n<li>Sluggish productivity growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Parliament today we repeatedly invited Mr Morrison to defend his economic record and allow time for a serious debate on the economy.<br \/>\nHe ran from the issue.<br \/>\nHe is ashamed of his economic record. He should be.<br \/>\nMr Morrison has no plan to stimulate our nation\u2019s sluggish economy and is so out of touch and arrogant that he believes he is above the scrutiny of the Parliament of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a second consecutive day Scott Morrison has refused to defend his economic record by debating the state of the Australian economy in the Parliament. After more than six years in office the Government has produced: The slowest economic growth in a decade; The worst wages growth on record; Almost two million Australians being unemployed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/government-runs-from-economic-debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government Runs From Economic Debate&#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-3938","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\/3938","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=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}