CANBERRA, ACT, Oct. 4 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
David Speers:
Jim Chalmers, welcome to the program.
Jim Chalmers:
Thanks very much David.
Speers:
Inflation is being driven by domestic pressures, productivity is going nowhere. Is the Reserve Bank Governor wrong here?
Chalmers:
Well, the comments that the Reserve Bank Governor made during the course of the week are consistent with the comments that I have been making. We have an inflation challenge in our economy, it's made much worse by the war in the Middle East.
If you look at the statement issued by the board, if you read the full transcript of the Governor's press conference on Tuesday, you'll see multiple references to the war in the Middle ...