In his 2013 book, Glory Daze, Jim Chalmers described his “enthusiasm” for getting the budget back into surplus within Labor’s hoped-for next term of government.
It was 2010 and Chalmers was Treasurer Wayne Swan’s chief of staff. He wrote the book having packed a cardboard box and vacated his office after the 2013 election, which Labor lost but Chalmers won, becoming the Member for Rankin in Brisbane.
