{"id":25142,"date":"2026-09-27T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/australia-news-live-chalmers-and-gallagher-to-present-final-budget-outcome-rba-interest-rate-hike-looms\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:37:25","slug":"australia-news-live-chalmers-and-gallagher-to-present-final-budget-outcome-rba-interest-rate-hike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/australia-news-live-chalmers-and-gallagher-to-present-final-budget-outcome-rba-interest-rate-hike-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news live: Chalmers and Gallagher to present final budget outcome; RBA interest rate hike looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the day\u2019s news live.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rising unemployment, stubbornly high inflation and a looming interest rate hike are piling misery onto Australian consumers, but Labor insists better days are on the horizon, <strong>Australian Associated Press<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The pinch of optimism comes as mortgage holders brace for the Reserve Bank of Australia to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/24\/australians-working-second-jobs-rising-mortgage-repayments-cost-of-living\">lift the official interest rate to a near-15-year high of 4.6%<\/a> on Tuesday, an outcome money markets are treating as largely a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/28\/labor-anthony-albanese-openai-ai-hacks-coalition-one-nation-medicare-budget-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a1f4b3035cc43c52775967b52d4bf5fa7245f8b4\/1266_754_5164_4131\/master\/5164.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=454d73dc657a1b7e06b37df52fdae2b6\" title=\"Australia news live: Chalmers and Gallagher to present final budget outcome; RBA interest rate hike looms\" \/>Follow the day\u2019s news live.<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nRising unemployment, stubbornly high inflation and a looming interest rate hike are piling misery onto Australian consumers, but Labor insists better days are on the horizon, Australian Associated Press reports.<br \/>\nThe pinch of optimism comes as mortgage holders brace for the Reserve Bank of Australia to lift the official interest rate to a near-15-year high of 4.6% on Tuesday, an outcome money markets are treating as largely a foregone conclusion. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the day\u2019s news live. Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Rising unemployment, stubbornly high inflation and a looming interest rate hike are piling misery onto Australian consumers, but Labor insists better days are on the horizon, Australian Associated Press reports. The pinch of optimism comes as mortgage holders brace &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/australia-news-live-chalmers-and-gallagher-to-present-final-budget-outcome-rba-interest-rate-hike-looms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia news live: Chalmers and Gallagher to present final budget outcome; RBA interest rate hike looms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}