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Chalmers confronts his economic critics
The treasurer insists his budget gets the balance right, even if the economists don’t agree. What will the Reserve Bank and the voters think?
Jennifer HewettColumnistJim Chalmers insists he’s relaxed about the range of responses to ambitious policies such as those contained in his budget – even if he doesn’t believe all of them are right.
But despite the easy-going manner that makes the treasurer by far the government’s best public performer, Chalmers is clearly highly sensitive about the welter of economic criticism that has greeted his budget.
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