CANBERRA, ACT, May 20 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: the Budget, tax changes, Australians activists detained
Rafael Epstein:
Jim Chalmers, thank you for coming in.
Jim Chalmers:
Nice to see you, Raf. Thanks for having me back.
Epstein:
I do want to give you time to talk about detail, but I want to ask about politics first. Have you lost control of the debate on the Budget?
Chalmers:
Of course not. Obviously from some quarters there will be people who prefer the current arrangements. They'll say and do anything, write anything to protect the arrangements which are currently in place. We anticipated that and we expected this to be contentious. We expected there to be a misinformation ca...