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3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Reserve Bank is in for major changes, but will it mean anything for interest rates?

ABC

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has indicated the looming election was not a factor in the Government's moves to introduce sweeping changes to the Reserve Bank. The move to split the board in two came after a long-running review of the Reserve Bank, which recommended making the change to get more expertise onto the board setting rates. But earlier this year the …

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1 month ago

PM condemns anti-Israel vandalism

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Sally Sara: Hello and welcome to The World Today, it is Thursday the 21st of November. Peter Ryan: Well Sally, Jim Chalmers, he's been really batting away questions that the future fund shake up, a changed mandate and the first statement of expectations in 15 years amounts to political interference that future governments could be tempted to raid the fund …

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1 month ago

Treasurer makes economic pitch

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Rachel Mealey: Hello welcome to PM, I'm Rachel Mealey coming to you from the lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera people in Brisbane. David Taylor: The Treasurer also says while the budget bottom line's improving thanks to a better tax take, it'll likely still come in deep in the red. Luke Siddham-Dundon: But she says the instructions don't give people …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says government has work to do on cost of living measures

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government knows there is still a lot of ground to make up when it comes to cost of living relief for Australians despite having released a raft of packages to ease the burden of inflation. Mr Chalmers's admission on 7.30 came one day after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton borrowed a line from US president-elect Donald …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Jim Chalmers to burnish his diplomatic efforts, as economic and foreign policy become 'almost indistinguishable'

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers will use a speech to foreign policy experts today to burnish his diplomatic credentials and issue a warning that Donald Trump's tariff plans may buffet Australia's economy and trigger a short-term inflation spike. Billed as the first major comments by a member of the Albanese government since Trump's US presidential election victory, Mr Chalmers will say that …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

RBA governor Michele Bullock gives blunt spending warning to Treasurer Jim Chalmers as election nears

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has received a blunt warning from Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock about the inflationary consequences of any potential splashy pre-election spending promises as she left the door open to even higher interest rates. Mr Chalmers said in the wake of Labor's Queensland election loss, the coming federal election "was never going to be — from …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Jim Chalmers tries to shut down shocking accusation about negative gearing leak with eight defiant words

Daily Mail

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has celebrated a second consecutive Budget surplus and dismissed a Labor insider's claims of a deliberate leak against Anthony Albanese as 'not really worth getting too worried about it'. The Treasurer's announcement comes after Cameron Milner, who was chief-of-staff to former Labor leader Bill Shorten, suggested Dr Chalmers had last week deliberately timed a review into negative …

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3 months ago

Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock mocks Treasurer Jim Chalmers with three cutting words

Daily Mail

Reserve Bank chief Michele Bullock has openly mocked Treasurer Jim Chalmers by suggesting she could hypothetically 'smash the economy' with more rate rises. But Ms Bullock has weaponised Dr Chalmers's critique of the most aggressive rate rises in a generation, just three weeks after the Treasurer accused the Reserve Bank of 'smashing the economy'. Reserve Bank chief Michele Bullock told …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bullock's Lowe moment has put an end to the uneasy political truce over the RBA

ABC

Before she set off the chain of events that would reduce the Reserve Bank reforms to a smoking wreckage, Governor Michele Bullock gave a nervous laugh. Hawks and doves The six-month comment may have been meant to reassure "hawks" who believed the Reserve Bank had been too soft, leaving inflation stuck around 4 per cent. When his old boss Wayne …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Does the Reserve Bank need an overhaul?

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SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: The Albanese Government's overhaul of the Reserve Bank is in limbo after the Coalition declared it will not support the Government's plans to create a new specialist board for setting interest rates. SARAH FERGUSON: The Opposition wanted you to transfer all the current external Reserve Bank board members onto the new rate setting board without any exceptions. …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Jim Chalmers blames interest rate rises for 'smashing' the economy, expects weak economic growth

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has blamed successive interest rate rises for "smashing the economy", as the government braces for more weak economic figures due this week. Ahead of the release of the latest economic growth figures on Wednesday, Mr Chalmers said the government was focused on walking the tightrope of bringing down inflation without further pressuring people "already being hammered by …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Albanese backflips on census LGBTQIA+ sexuality question - and hangs his two main men Richard Marles and Jim Chalmers out to dry

Daily Mail

Anthony Albanese's backflip to now include a sexuality question in the coming census, while the right thing to do, has hung the Deputy PM and Treasurer out to dry. The argument the Deputy PM Richard Marles and Treasurer Jim Chalmers used to defend it claimed that leaving sexuality out of the questionnaire would avoid 'divisive debate'. Anthony Albanese reversed a …

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4 months ago

Reserve Bank restructure closer to reality after Treasurer Jim Chalmers offers olive branch to Angus Taylor

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The Reserve Bank of Australia is a step closer to its biggest restructure in three decades after Treasurer Jim Chalmers assured his Coalition counterpart, Angus Taylor, that he would not seek to replace members of the powerful interest rate-setting board. Mr Taylor's suspicion that Mr Chalmers would use the restructure to "stack" the board with Labor-aligned members has been the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

PETER VAN ONSELEN: Jim Chalmers' excuses for Australia's inflation crisis spectacularly unravel - with two key stats easily blowing apart the garbage Treasurer is peddling

Daily Mail

Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants you to believe that rising inflation isn't his fault. Under pressure: Jim Chalmers' excuses for Australia's 'sticky' inflation crisis are unravelling He wants you to focus on the fact inflation is lower now than when Labor came to power. In other words Australia's rising inflation - a quarterly adjusted figure of 3.8 per cent - is …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

What cost of living crisis? Jim Chalmers' wife Laura brings her fashion A-game to the Midwinter Ball in $3,375 ensemble

Daily Mail

Laura Chalmers ensured all eyes were on her on Wednesday night when she stepped out at the Midwinter Ball in Canberra. While many Australians are feeling the pinch during a cost of living crisis, Ms Chalmers was happy to flex her style credentials in a $3,375 ensemble as she posed alongside her treasurer husband, Jim Chalmers. Both pictured Ms Chalmers …

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7 months ago

We asked Australians how they feel about cost-of-living measures in the federal budget. Many are in despair

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It was billed as the cost-of-living budget. When Treasurer Jim Chalmers stepped up this week to unveil his government's economic plan for the year ahead, he described a responsible budget that "helps people under pressure today". "It's at the point where other friends of mine who are pensioners get so excited just when they can buy mince to make Bolognese," …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Treasurer Jim Chalmers's latest federal budget includes more than $80 billion of 'spending' not on the books

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Governments on both sides of the political fence have long done it, and the current federal budget features the same old accounting trick where billions of dollars of spending are shifted off-balance sheet by classifying it as investment. In table 3.4 of the budget papers under "total net cash flows from investments in financial assets for policy purposes" there's more …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Federal Budget 2024: How Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest was a massive winner after Jim Chalmers introduced major tax breaks that will benefit the billionaire's private and public business interests

Daily Mail

Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest was a major winner in the Federal Budget, following the introduction of generous tax incentives for both his private and public business interests. Andrew ' Twiggy ' Forrest was a major winner in the Federal Budget, following the introduction of generous tax incentives for both his private and public business interests Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Tuesday …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Federal Budget 2024: Nat Barr grills Jim Chalmers over energy rebate on Sunrise

Daily Mail

Nat Barr has grilled Treasurer Jim Chalmers about why even the wealthiest Australians will receive $300 off their energy bills. Nat Barr has grilled Treasurer Jim Chalmers about why even the wealthiest Australians can receive $300 to go towards their energy bills 'Yeah but you're also getting it if you're earning $1million. Jim Chalmers handed down the federal Budget on …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Australians react with fury to Jim Chalmers' Budget as voters say they DON'T want $300 energy rebate and Treasurer is torn apart on live TV... as experts warn handouts could spark economic disaster

Daily Mail

Australian voters are vowing to boycott Labor at the next federal election over what has been described as 'the most irresponsible Budget in recent memory'. This year's Federal Budget, released on Tuesday night by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, promised every Australian household - no matter how much they earn - a $300 rebate to ease the pressure of increased power bills. …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Federal budgets are always a balancing act, but can Jim Chalmers keep the economy afloat and inflation at bay?

ABC

Federal budgets have always been a juggling act, an attempt at trying to balance competing interests. Budget forecasts faster inflation drop than expected by RBA Photo shows Katy Gallagher and Jim Chalmers walk on the grass on top of Parliament House The outlook for Australia's economic growth is worsening and inflation forecasts remain uncertain as the federal government battles to …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Federal budget to haul in extra cash once again, but less than in previous years

ABC

Next week's federal budget will once again collect more in tax than expected, raking in an extra $25 billion over the five-year budget forecasting period. The windfall is smaller than in the past six updates, prompting Treasurer Jim Chalmers to warn his third budget would be characterised by "intensifying, not easing" financial pressure to show fiscal restraint. He said this …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Treasurer Jim Chalmers commits to sweeping overhaul of Australia's foreign investment system in the name of national security

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In short: Australia's foreign investment laws are getting a shake-up due to national security concerns. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Australia's foreign investment system will receive a major overhaul in the name of national security interests. "What I'm intending to announce tomorrow is a major overhaul of our foreign investment framework," Mr Chalmers told 7.30. Mr Chalmers told 7.30 the overhaul …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Nuclear energy's six biggest myths busted as Australia seriously considers making the change - and why coal isn't necessarily the safe option

Daily Mail

The fear of a scare campaign against nuclear energy has prompted one Coalition MP to debunk some myths about nuclear reactors - and warn even coal plants can be potentially dangerous. The prospect of a nuclear energy scare campaign has prompted a Coalition MP to debunk some myths about nuclear reactors and point out coal plants are also potentially dangerous …

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The Reserve Bank is in for major changes, but will it mean anything for interest rates?

PM condemns anti-Israel vandalism

Treasurer makes economic pitch

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says government has work to do on cost of living measures

Jim Chalmers to burnish his diplomatic efforts, as economic and foreign policy become 'almost indistinguishable'

RBA governor Michele Bullock gives blunt spending warning to Treasurer Jim Chalmers as election nears

Jim Chalmers tries to shut down shocking accusation about negative gearing leak with eight defiant words

Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock mocks Treasurer Jim Chalmers with three cutting words

Bullock's Lowe moment has put an end to the uneasy political truce over the RBA

Does the Reserve Bank need an overhaul?

Jim Chalmers blames interest rate rises for 'smashing' the economy, expects weak economic growth

Albanese backflips on census LGBTQIA+ sexuality question - and hangs his two main men Richard Marles and Jim Chalmers out to dry

Reserve Bank restructure closer to reality after Treasurer Jim Chalmers offers olive branch to Angus Taylor

PETER VAN ONSELEN: Jim Chalmers' excuses for Australia's inflation crisis spectacularly unravel - with two key stats easily blowing apart the garbage Treasurer is peddling

What cost of living crisis? Jim Chalmers' wife Laura brings her fashion A-game to the Midwinter Ball in $3,375 ensemble

We asked Australians how they feel about cost-of-living measures in the federal budget. Many are in despair

Treasurer Jim Chalmers's latest federal budget includes more than $80 billion of 'spending' not on the books

Federal Budget 2024: How Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest was a massive winner after Jim Chalmers introduced major tax breaks that will benefit the billionaire's private and public business interests

Federal Budget 2024: Nat Barr grills Jim Chalmers over energy rebate on Sunrise

Australians react with fury to Jim Chalmers' Budget as voters say they DON'T want $300 energy rebate and Treasurer is torn apart on live TV... as experts warn handouts could spark economic disaster

Federal budgets are always a balancing act, but can Jim Chalmers keep the economy afloat and inflation at bay?

Federal budget to haul in extra cash once again, but less than in previous years

Treasurer Jim Chalmers commits to sweeping overhaul of Australia's foreign investment system in the name of national security

Nuclear energy's six biggest myths busted as Australia seriously considers making the change - and why coal isn't necessarily the safe option