Jim Chalmers

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers “borrowed the old Kevin Rudd line” of reckless and wasteful spending must stop.

Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers has claimed Labor will follow through on its 24/7 aged care nurse pledge despite concerns being raised about the policy from ...

“We'll need tens of thousands of nurses. Labor has come under fire for “misleading” Australians on a key election pledge, but Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it will take “a bit of time” for the party to stick to its promise. Labor has come under fire for “misleading” Australians on a key election pledge, but Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it will take “a bit of time” for the party to stick to its promise.

Would-be Labor treasurer Jim Chalmers tripped over his own numbers Tuesday when he – or his social media team – tweeted out figures seeming to give the ...

A mid-speech post from Labors Jim Chalmers has inadvertently spruiked the Morrison governments credentials in an awkward blunder by the shadow treasurer.

Labor's shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers was mortified after a tweet from his account on Tuesday afternoon praised the Coalition for lower unemployment numbers ...

Shadow treasurer says a Labor government would 'reorient' budget as RBA warns of mounting fuel and commodity prices.

“There is a task to deal with the stupendous waste and rorts that we’ve seen in the budget. “If it’s not the time to flick a switch to austerity, it is the time to flick a switch to quality.” “I’m very pleased to see already what we thought might even take a bit longer than this, that we’re seeing that cost of living relief flow through to Australian families, for individuals as they’re going off to work, getting around the city and ensuring that they can get that cost of living relief now,” Morrison said. Chalmers said that if Labor formed government it would have the opportunity to “reorient” the budget before the end of the year, and said it would consider the economic circumstances at the time as it assessed extending support for cost of living pressures. “We’ve said it’s hard to imagine a world where the cash handouts in the current budget will continue indefinitely, and that’s just been upfront about the pressures in the budget,” he said. The pledge to assess cost of living pressures comes as the reserve bank warned on Tuesday that inflationary pressures would continue to mount “over coming quarters”, arising from higher petrol and commodity prices.

The slicing of a petrol tax making a trip to the bowser less painful could be kept for longer than six months only if there was “an incredibly compelling ...

The government says Labor cannot be trusted to keep its no new taxes promises after Jim Chalmers rejected adopting a tax cap.

“The arbitrary tax cap that the government has imposed... Does that mean he’s going to increase the GST?” she asked. Sign up to our Election Brief newsletter. Connect with Phillip on “Overall, it is good for the economy but what that requires is that you get the constituent parts of it right and that you build public support for it.” “We’re not attracted to the government’s tax cap, and the reason we’re not