Politics latest: Jim Chalmers hails ‘pretty stunning’ inflation rate drop; Libs warn PM ‘don’t reward Hamas’
Protesters at Parliament House have demanded Labor sanction Israel; A jubilant Jim Chalmers says the fall in inflation from 2.4pc to 2.1pc is good news for the economy and bodes well for a rate cut.
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