“Well, these are uncertain times,” he says.
We all had that one on our bingo cards.
“We’ve got a lot going for us as Australians, but there’s a lot at stake,” Dr Chalmers continues.
“This is a really important moment in the global economy, and we get to decide whether we go to the world more resilient under Labor or more vulnerable under the Coalition, and this debate and Angus’ inability to come clean on his secret cuts to pay for his nuclear reactors has made the choices really clear, whether we build on the progress that we’ve made together, or whether we take Australia backwards.
“And the choices there, as I keep coming back to, is labor helping with the cost of living, cutting income taxes, strengthening Medicare, building more homes, building Australia’s future, making us more resilient in an uncertain world, or higher income taxes and lower wages and secret cuts to pay for nuclear reactors, that’s not an economic plan.
“That’s an ambush, and it’s just like 2013-14, which is why we’re hearing all of the same rhetoric again. Now, there could not be a more important time for the responsible economic management, which has been the defining feature of this Albanese Government. And there could not be a worse time to risk Peter dutton’s coalition of cuts and chaos, which would make Australians worse off and take Australians backwards, because when Peter Dutton cuts, every Australian will pay all right.”