Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called for an end to the growing unfunded demands on the budget as he rejected requests to bring forward the government’s new childcare subsidy regime, and said emergency wage subsidies for COVID-19 were becoming unsustainable.
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers in the Great Hall at Parliament House Canberra where the Jobs and Skills Summit
will be held. Alex Ellinghausen
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