Jim-chalmers Articles

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November 26, 2025

Reserve Bank could raise interest rates as early as May after inflation climbs to 3.8%

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says government deciding on energy rebate extension in ‘next few weeks’ as cost of living continues to bite

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October 17, 2025

The ‘messy’ trend behind Australia’s rising unemployment is worrying economists

The RBA is holding fire on further rate cuts until it is confident that inflation is easing. But the latest jobs data complicates matters

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October 13, 2025

Keating praises super backdown – but with such a feeble opposition, Labor should spend more political capital

If Albanese and Chalmers are to achieve the intergenerational fairness they say Australia so badly needs, much bigger fights than this will be...

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October 13, 2025

Australia news live: Wong says Trump deserves ‘enormous congratulations’ as Israeli hostages released; Keating’s influence on super backdown revealed

Treasurer says he spoke to former PM ‘half a dozen’ times before unveiling changes to his plans for superannuation tax concessions. Follow today’s...

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October 13, 2025

New rules have been proposed for your super. Here’s what you need to know

Major changes include indexing super balances to inflation and addition of a new threshold taxing balances between $3m and $10mGet our

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September 25, 2025

Nobody wanted to say ‘mission accomplished’ on inflation – certainly not Jim Chalmers. But he was surely thinking it

Economists are revising their rate cut predictions after the latest ABS figures revealed inflation is trending back up. But there are reasons to...

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August 24, 2025

Retirees ‘deserve’ super tax breaks, treasurer says, as government considers how to give younger Australians ‘fair go’

No plan to alter concessional measures on retirees’ superannuation as part of tax reforms, Jim Chalmers says

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August 21, 2025

Giving Australians $2,700 tax back while widening GST could help generate $152bn windfall, economist says

Economist who modelled GST estimates his proposed tax reform would lift real GDP by 6%, boost business investment by 11% and increase the number of...

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August 18, 2025

News live: Israeli minister threatens more action against Australia as Palestinian Authority condemns visa cancellations

‘To be continued’: Gideon Sa’ar says Australia will face more action for barring Israelis from entry. Follow today’s news liveGet our

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August 18, 2025

Andrew Leigh backs cancellation of Israeli MP’s visa – as it happened

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