The Latest Breaking News from Jim Chalmers

Jim Chalmers likes to say we need national “conversations” about the economic issues facing the country. Now, just as the new parliamentary year is set to begin on Monday, Chalmers has bought himself a doozy of a conversation, with his essay advocating we embrace “values-based capitalism”.

Tony Abbott leads the praise inside St Mary’s Cathedral while protesters outside face off with funeral attenders in sometimes heated exchanges

Treasurer Jim Chalmers begins his Monthly essay “Capitalism After the Crises” with a quote from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is leaning on superannuation funds and global connections to power Australia's push to rewire homes and industries with clean energy.

The outlook for the global economy has improved marginally, with inflation likely past its peak and trending down over 2023 and 2024.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected as “laughable” criticism he has turned his back on the Hawke-Keating reform era in his blueprint for “values-based capitalism”.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says it will be a tough year for hundreds of thousands of people coming off fixed mortgage rates and on to higher variable ones.

The federal treasurer has called for a new economic order that's more aligned with Australia's values and more resilient to back-to-back shocks.

Treasurer says ‘best way to shift the needle’ is to ‘find out where those challenges are most acute’, and ‘this is something I care deeply about’