CANBERRA, ACT, May 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:

Note

Joint press conference with

The Hon Clare O'Neil MP

Minister for Housing, Homelessness and Cities

Subjects: 2026 Budget, housing, trusts, polling, Foreign Investment Review Board

Jim Chalmers:

It's the week after Budget and we'll be in 4 cities in 4days, talking about a budget which is all about helping people through this global oil shock, at the same time as we take some difficult decisions to reform our economy for the future. It's really important that we start the week here with a very important announcement from Clare. I'm going to throw to Clare to make the announcement and then I've got a few other contributions to make, then happy to ta...