Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

It must be three o'clock! I welcome the question from the shadow Treasurer. I say to the shadow Treasurer and to his colleagues that they need to decide: do they want immigration to be lower or higher? They say they want it to be lower, but then they say they'll vote for it to be higher. They have to make up their mind, as the minister has pointed out to them repeatedly today. I'm asked what the RBA governor has said about some of these matters, and the two most important things that Governor Bullock has said are: first of all, public demand is not the main game when it comes to the outlook for inflation, and, secondly, the government has the right attitude when it comes to inflation. She couldn't be clearer. The Governor of the Reserve Bank couldn't be clearer. The shadow Treasurer could be a little clearer. The reason why his colleagues have been in the Saturday paper saying he has vacated the field and is not providing any direction and is just throwing rocks is that he has provided absolutely no coherent, costed or credible economic policies.

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