2GB Afternoons host Michael McLaren has slammed the Federal and State governments, saying they are fuelling Australia’s inflation crisis through years of excessive spending.

With the Reserve Bank widely expected to hike rates again, McLaren thinks governments need to accept responsibility for the economic pressures Australians face.

“Governments have been on a spending binge since Covid,” McLaren said.

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