Jim Chalmers 2022

LIAM BARTLETT:

LAURA TINGLE:

NEIL MITCHELL:

Federal Treasurer, good morning.

JIM CHALMERS:

Good morning, Neil. How are you?

MITCHELL:

Thanks Laura [Tingle] for your very kind introduction, and the Board and Maurice, for having me back at the National Press Club to speak for the sixth time, but the first time as Treasurer –

Carrying on an important tradition of fronting up the day after the Budget, to give you a broader sense of perspective behind, and beyond, the numbers.

ALLISON LANGDON:

How do you reckon it went?

CHALMERS:

VIRGINIA TRIOLI:

Well, as I mentioned, rising energy prices, stagnating wages – a little bit of a lift in wages, say, in two years’ time – and a very big budget black hole even while the deficit seems to have been halved due to unexpected incomings into the coffers from booming commodity prices. But not much for you. How are you going to cope?

SARAH HARRIS:

DAVID KOCH:

What do you say to voters that you haven’t delivered relief for power prices that you went to the election on?

JIM CHALMERS:

LISA MILLAR:

SARAH FERGUSON: