"While the media likes to run a line about how Trump isn’t that bad as he wrecks global trade, spikes US inflation, reduces US growth and employment, elevates crony capitalism to core policy and trashes the budget, it’s a different standard here for a Labor government that refused to heed the AFR’s demands that the economy be sent into recession to stop inflation"

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/03/australian-economy-deficit-improves-sprating-america-trump-spending/