CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: 2026 Budget, conflict in the Middle East, housing, tax reform, business tax relief, start-ups, NDIS, gas tax, young Australians on the Budget
Billi Fitzsimons:
Jim Chalmers, thank you for joining The Daily Aus.
Jim Chalmers:
Thanks very much, Billi, for having me on.
Fitzsimons:
I want to start super broad. How is the Australian economy going at the moment?
Chalmers:
It's going better than a lot of other countries, but it's under a heap of pressure because of developments in the Middle East. Not just that, we had our fair share of challenges before that, but a lot of what the war in the Middle East is doing to our economy is making ...