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Jim Chalmers’ spin about headline inflation - artificially reduced with taxpayer money - makes him more resemble a magician trying to make the audience look somewhere else on the stage, writes Stephen Johnson.
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DJ Jim spins inflation number the RBA cares less about

STEPHEN JOHNSON: The Treasurer has insulted our intelligence by overstating the importance of an inflation number the Reserve Bank pays less attention to.

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