how Jim Chalmers is shaping the budget
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
What was Treasurer Jim Chalmers thinking?
Late last year he set up a committee he specifically asked to tell him how bad JobSeeker was.
The exact words in its terms of reference required it to advise him on the “adequacy, effectiveness and sustainability of income support payments”.
It is true that he was sort of forced to. Independent...
