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“Chalmers told this masthead’s Inside Politics podcast this week that he had become a “lightning rod” for criticism at a time when inflation is running hotter in Australia than the UK and the US and the G7 average.”

“The US, Japan and UK are firmly on their list.”

““We continue to engage closely with industry so that our approach reflects the sector’s and UK’s national interests,” the spokesperson said in an email.”

“The bank’s monetary policy board raised its benchmark cash rate by 0.25 of a percentage point to 4.6 per cent on Tuesday, adding more than $90 a month to repayments on a typical $600,000 mortgage with 25 years remaining.”

“One Nation leader Pauline Hanson raised the stakes last month when she announced plans to slash the tax on a packet of cigarettes by $30, gazumping the Coalition, which followed with its own policy weeks later.”

“The 40-year challenges this report sets out are quite obviously framed around the solutions that the Albanese government is already rolling out and, in an amazing coincidence, those policy prescriptions are the right ones.”

“…lue of migrants The migration hysteria created by One Nation and the response from Labor and the Coalition misses the point, namely the benefits of our policy over the past 250 years (“Politicians’ rethink on immigration demands sober analysis”, September…”

“The cost of the age pension to taxpayers will fall even as more than 9 million people reach retirement age over the next 40 years, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal on Wednesday amid accusations that the next election will be an existential fight for the…”