CANBERRA, ACT, April 30 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:

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Subjects: churn and change in the global economy, war in the Middle East, fuel security, May Budget, productivity, NDIS, tax reform, intergenerational fairness, stagflation and labour market, AI

Luke Yeaman:

Well, welcome everyone to a very special episode of the CommBank View: Economics and Markets podcast. I am Luke Yeaman, the chief economist of CommBank, and I am joined by a very special guest today in his sunny home state of Queensland no less, the Treasurer of Australia, DrJim Chalmers. Welcome.

Jim Chalmers:

Nice to see you again, Luke. Thanks for the opportunity to have a chat.

Yeaman:

Great to have you here. There's a huge amount we ...