{"id":54,"date":"2019-11-30T03:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T03:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/the-robodebt-horror-was-all-about-boosting-the\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:51:36","slug":"the-robodebt-horror-was-all-about-boosting-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/the-robodebt-horror-was-all-about-boosting-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The robodebt horror was all about boosting the budget. That&#8217;s the brutal truth | Katharine Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/30\/the-robodebt-horror-was-all-about-boosting-the-budget-thats-the-brutal-truth'>The robodebt horror was all about boosting the budget. That&#8217;s the brutal truth | Katharine Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>robodebt was hatched for a simple, clinical purpose: to return money to<br \/>\nthe budget at a time when the budget was firmly in the red. Viewed<br \/>\nthrough the lens of the budget papers, robodebt was about supplying<br \/>\nmagic billions to the bottom line so the government wouldn\u2019t have to cut<br \/>\n spending or raise taxes in ways that might have cost it votes.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robodebt horror was all about boosting the budget. That&#8217;s the brutal truth | Katharine Murphy robodebt was hatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[20,19,26,25,27],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-australia-news","tag-australian-politics","tag-centrelink","tag-centrelink-debt-recovery","tag-welfare","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}