Jim Chalmers is the Treasurer of Lies

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has become Albo’s Prince of Lies.

Over recent weeks we have witnessed Chalmers lie about wage growth, claiming that the government had “got wages moving again” when actual real wages have suffered their biggest collapse in history:

Real wages

Chalmers also lied twice about immigration, claiming that the record surge in immigration was not government policy and had actually been caused by fewer Australians leaving overseas. Both claims were categorically false and easily debunked (see here and here).

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.