Chalmers warns against Dutton comeback as interest rate hopes fade

Capital Economics became the latest forecaster on Friday to push back their forecast for the RBA’s first cash rate cut beyond the next election.

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Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Jim Chalmers has warned voters against flirting with supporting Peter Dutton, insisting that Labor has a better grasp of real-world concerns than the Coalition. In a major speech in Perth, the treasurer said the Albanese government did not need the election of Donald Trump as president to realise cost-of-living issues were dominating kitchen table conversations, and the country had “lots to lose” in any return to Coalition rule.

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