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Who pays for mortgage pain? Chris Minns' spending call lifts a Sunrise segment

An economist's case against government deficits drew about eighteen times the breakfast show's usual first-day audience, far ahead of the slime tips and shark drones posted around it.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 46,124 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (2,546).

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Mortgages pulled the crowd. Sunrise, Seven's breakfast program, posts a steady stream of segments from each morning's broadcast, and most open quietly, with a couple of thousand views on the first day. "Government spending blamed for mortgage pain | Sunrise" drew about 46,000 in its first 24 hours, roughly eighteen times that.

The segment sets a kitchen-table worry beside a bigger argument. NSW Premier Chris Minns has joined calls for governments to cut spending to bring inflation down. The description frames it against interest rates at what it calls a 15-year high, with mortgage holders feeling every repayment. Economist Dr Christian Baylis argues that government deficits are draining the economy and pushing the Reserve Bank to lift rates further. His answer is for governments to run surpluses and move money out of low-productivity areas into infrastructure that adds supply.

Around it sits the usual breakfast-show spread: how to get slime out of carpet, clothes and hair, shark-spotting drones over more Queensland beaches, South Australia's royal commission into artificial intelligence, and a sleep psychologist's advice for the daylight saving switch. Each of those has a few hundred views so far.

Perhaps that is the clearest sign of what the morning audience cares about. On a menu that wide, the one about repayments is the one that traveled.

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The facts
Channel
Sunrise
Subscribers
364,000
Channel views, pace per day
160,948 (on a normal day: 162,580)
Video published
October 1, 2026
Video views so far
51,742 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
43,608

The numbers

The figures show how far one money segment ran ahead of a typical first day for Sunrise.

the video's first day
usual first day here
2,546
this video
46,124
subscribers
364,000
total views
342,047,054
views per day
160,948
typical day: 162,580
the video
views
51,742
likes
331
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Lorraine
371,000
Sunrise
364,000
The Late Late Show
363,000
22 Minutes
358,000
Would I Lie To You?
306,000
New Zealand Today
297,000
As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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