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Chalmers’ legacy a decade of deficits
The spending frenzy by federal and state governments is putting the country’s long-term credit rating at risk and setting up future generations for failure.
Jim Chalmers gives in to his pre-election splurges
The mid-year economic and fiscal outlook shows an improvement in the 2024-25 budget bottom line will give way to deficits totalling $143.9bn to 2027-28 — $22bn more than initially projected.
Both leaders on notice: Voters in pain demand a way out
Employers in the inner-cities, regions and outer-suburbs will spend the Christmas break worried if they can keep afloat and provide job security for workers.
Real world: ‘Jim, we’re in bad nick’ as insolvencies rise
Almost 26,000 businesses have plunged into insolvency since the 2022 election due to rising cost pressures, as more than 930,000 Australians rely on jobless welfare payments.
Jim’s modus: repeat, adapt, repeat
Jim Chalmers is the master of the catchphrase, using political mantras to simplify complex issues and repeating slogans adapted to changing economic circumstances and cost-of-living crisis.
‘Automatic’ excuse to justify Labor spending
Jim Chalmers’s budget update will bake-in $25.1bn in extra expenditure, with some leading economists declaring Labor’s financial path is not inevitable and offsets can still be made.
Cbus 40th birthday knees-up cost members $387k
Cbus spent almost $400,000 on a party earlier this year, after the industry superannuation fund had allegedly mishandled $20m in insurance money and in some cases took more than a year to pay out death benefits or disability payments.
Slumping Chinese economy blows $100bn hole in Chalmers budget
Jim Chalmers will downgrade mining exports by $100bn and company tax receipts by $8.5bn, as Xi Jinping’s flatlining economy drives a widening deficit hole in Australia’s budget.
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