CHALMERS RIPS INTO DUTTON
Treasurer Jim Chalmers used a speech to flesh out his vision for Australia’s “fourth economy” — and to rip into Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who he described as “the most divisive leader of a major political party in Australia’s modern history — and not by accident, by choice”.
“He divides deliberately, almost pathologically,” Chalmers said of Dutton in his 2024 John Curtin Oration. “This is worse than disappointing, it is dangerous.”
The Australian labels the treasurer Anthony Albanese’s “offence minister” in a headline this morning, calling it a “politically charged speech” where Chalmers “launched an extraordinary assault on the opposition leader’s readiness to lead the country”.
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