Sky News host Chris Kenny says Treasurer Jim Chalmers was not “in a generous mood” after telling Labor backbenchers who proposed an increase to JobSeeker payments that he needs to ‘make it all add up’.
“Ah yes, fiscal reality, budgetary constraints – all that stuff Labor didn’t think so much about when it was getting people’s hopes up from
opposition,” Mr Kenny said.“Just add this one to the broken electricity price promise, the pledge that interest rates would be lower and the cost of living too.”
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