Up Late: Jim Chalmers Budget speech should be codenamed FIGJAM

With Jim Chalmers taking from cashed-up Baby Boomers and giving to Millennials and Gen Z, Ben Harvey points out why the Treasurer’s latest ‘fairer’ budget is another ‘fool me once, fool me twice’ moment.

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Ben Harvey
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In tonight’s show, with Jim Chalmers taking from cashed-up Baby Boomers and giving to Millennials and Gen Z (who by sheer coincidence have just overtaken boomers as the biggest cohort of voters)

In tonight’s show, with Jim Chalmers taking from cashed-up Baby Boomers and giving to Millennials and Gen Z (who by sheer coincidence have just overtaken boomers as the biggest cohort of voters) Ben Harvey points out why the Treasurer’s latest “fairer” budget is another ‘fool me once, fool me twice’ moment.

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