Jim Chalmers
Labor says you’d be $7200 worse off under Dutton. It makes several assumptions
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says households would be thousands of dollars worse off without Labor’s cost-of-living help. His opposite number says that’s nonsense.
- Millie Muroi
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‘Everything will be worse under Dutton’: Chalmers on the economic attack
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has intensified his attack on the Coalition as the latest polling showed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in the lead.
- Millie Muroi
- Exclusive
- Australian economy
Coalition MPs want Trump-style ‘Australia first’ economics pitch
Conservative critics say the Coalition’s economic agenda is tissue-thin. There are mounting calls to go big and bold before the Reserve Bank lowers interest rates.
- Paul Sakkal
Greens pledge $800 in ‘back to school’ money for every state school student
The crossbench party launches its election year with a cost-of-living measure that would cost $10 billion to cover all school charges.
- Olivia Ireland
Motorists play petrol lotto as stations pump up prices in big cities
A motorist advocate says there’s no reason why petrol is so much more expensive in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne than in other cities.
- Mike Foley
The one easy thing you could do to save $317 a year on your bills
Households prepared to switch energy providers are saving 17 per cent more than their loyal counterparts, according to the competition watchdog.
- Millie Muroi
- Exclusive
- Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin, ether, dogecoin – Chalmers says the future may be crypto
Derided by critics as a waste of electricity, cryptocurrencies are the way of the future, its backers say. Australia’s treasurer believes they will have a role.
- Shane Wright
- Opinion
- New Year
Guilt gets a bad rap. I’m guilty, but my new year’s resolution is to be OK with it
We have this magical thinking that we can be better come the new year, then we too often fail. Don’t dismiss guilt as the motivator you might need to keep your resolutions.
- Jenna Price
Five Australian cities are now among world’s top 20 most expensive
The International Monetary Fund says nothing short of major reform can change the fact that Australian housing, across all international metrics, is some of the most expensive in the world.
- Shane Wright
- Editorial
- Australian economy
Public patience wearing thin on Labor’s economic vision
The question is whether the treasurer’s talk of a soft landing will convince voters that the government is doing enough to alleviate the hardship they are experiencing.
- The Age's View
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