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Politics Now: Chalmers 'fighting everything except home-grown inflation'

Opposition Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor has slammed Jim Chalmers' inflation strategy and says the Treasurer is 'playing the man and not the ball' in his attack on Peter Dutton, as the Albanese government secures 22 million bags of IV fluids amid a supply shortage. 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been accused of 'fighting everything except home-grown inflation'. Picture: NewsWire / John Gass
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been accused of 'fighting everything except home-grown inflation'. Picture: NewsWire / John Gass

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