CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 22 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
Tom McIlroy:
I'm Tom McIlroy, Political Editor at Guardian Australia, recording on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people in Canberra. We're coming to you earlier in the week because Guardian Australia's economics editor, Patrick Commins and I, have been speaking with Jim Chalmers, the federal Treasurer, on the latest Intergenerational Report which he launched here in Canberra on Monday.
The IGR is Treasury's economic forecast for the next 40years, and it's a requirement of government that first began when Peter Costello was Treasurer in the Howard government. The purpose is to assess the long‑term sustainability of government policies, an...