View the profiles of people named James Chalmers. This article is available to subscribers who have digital access included in their subscription. Jim Chalmers is lid van Facebook. It matters for the individual, and the company that they work for, that $300 a fortnight is nothing to be sneezed at but it is also hundreds of millions of dollars pulled out of the economy before it is ready for that. Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers explains what Labor would have done differently in the budget. Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers responds to the budget. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. JIM CHALMERS: Look, we have made the same point, that at some stage JobKeeper won't be necessary in the economy but it is too soon now to be cutting JobKeeper. 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But some of the other measures, loss carry back and some of those other things in the budget will help a little bit but I think it is disappointing, certainly if you are a Victorian, not to hear much empathy or not to hear much of a response for your specific circumstances but not just Victoria, Cairns and other parts of Australia are doing it incredibly difficult at the moment and they need a government that understands that. A trillion dollars in debt, still no vision or plan for the future. So we need to factor all of that in. JIM CHALMERS, SHADOW TREASURER: Two points about that, Leigh. Jim Chalmers is on Facebook. Jim Chalmers is the federal Labor MP for Rankin and the Shadow Treasurer. JIM CHALMERS: Look, I think the Prime Minister is more interested in playing a kind of a political blame game than actually helping Victorians. We have said that now for some months that we would support that. Tap into 163 yrs of superior customer service & quality insurance products at competitive rates. I mean, first of all, the Government has racked up a trillion dollars of debt and yet, still we have got unemployment too high for too long. We are inclined to support it but I think people will understand that we will also take a little bit of time, whatever time we have available to us, to go through the details and make sure that we are getting bang for buck for such an extraordinary amount of money. Join Facebook to connect with Jim Chalmers and others you may know. JIM CHALMERS: Oh look, we've said that we support the income tax cuts, to bring forward of stage 2 and the extra help for low- and middle-income earners. © West Australian Newspapers Limited 2020. JobKeeper has been cut at the same time. Clearly in Melbourne, many small businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers can't afford to lose $300 a fortnight. 727 talking about this. And when you think about the future for those workers, there has been no budgeted increase in the JobSeeker amounts so it is back to $40 a day unless the Government tells us otherwise. LEIGH SALES: There is no specific economic support in this budget for Victoria even though it has fared worse than the rest of the country during the pandemic. Will Labor support it? The point that I would make about that is we have been consistent throughout. We now are told by media, actually, that there will be one omnibus bill with all of the business tax measures in it as well. Join Facebook to connect with James Chalmers and others you may know. The government hasn't. Do you think that there is a case for that? LEIGH SALES: What are your early thoughts on the JobMaker plan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chalmers_(Queensland_politician) So we will go through the detail of it and make sure that's the right and responsible way to spend so much money. Join Facebook to connect with Jim Chalmers and others you may know. 67 were here. JIM CHALMERS: Oh look, we've said that we support the income tax cuts, to bring forward of stage 2 and the extra help for low- and middle-income earners. Yes, at some point, JobKeeper will be tapered away but you think about the weakness in the economy in Victoria which you just profiled. Too many people have been left out and left behind, workers over 35, for example. Jim Chalmers is the federal Labor MP for Rankin and the Shadow Treasurer. As your local MP I’m here to assist you in whatever way I can with Federal issues. JIM CHALMERS: Who can keep up with all of these slogans, Leigh, but if you are talking about the incentives for hiring, we do have a concern there and the concern is this: There are 928,000 Australians on unemployment benefits who aren't eligible for any of these hiring subsidies. Facebook geeft mensen de kans om te delen en maakt de wereld toegankelijker. All subscriptions include exclusive subscriber offers, events and giveaways with West Rewards, our subscriber rewards program. LEIGH SALES: We'll hear more from the Opposition on Thursday night when Anthony Albanese delivers the budget reply speech. Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism from Western Australia's biggest newsroom with your subscription. Jim Chalmers MP . The history wars will continue to be fought, of course. To comment on this story and join the conversation, subscribe to The West Australian’s Everyday Digital package. JIM CHALMERS: But it is being cut, Leigh, and that matters for two reasons. Opposition treasury spokesman Jim Chalmers says the budget was an expensive missed opportunity. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 1,446 talking about this. There is a role for government when the economy is weak as it was a decade ago, as it is now, for the government to step in to support jobs and support people in their communities. One of the measurers alone cost $27 billion. Still too many people left behind, still not undoing the damage of the last seven years of mismanagement. Federal Labor Member for Rankin. Jim Chalmers has been the Member for Rankin since 2013, proudly representing the people and suburbs of southern Brisbane and Logan City where he was born, grew up and made a home with Laura, Leo, Annabel, and Jack. We have said that it should be tapered but now is too soon. So the point that we will be making is you would think that we could get more bang for buck for the trillion dollars in debt that they have racked up. Jim Chalmers, as Shadow Treasurer, is tasked with taking the fight on economic management to the Government and formulating the economic policies that Labor will take to the next election. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. LEIGH SALES: But it is actually not coming out until March next year and that is quite a way off. After the 2019 election Jim was appointed Shadow Treasurer. LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Jim Chalmers, will Labor be railing against the Coalition for presiding over a debt and deficit disaster as the Coalition did when Labor used fiscal policy to cushion the country from the GFC? We have been consistent on that. WIN a once in a lifetime adventure with the Channel Seven WE LOVE MUSEUMS lottery! It is too soon to be pulling that kind of support out of the economy especially when the Government hasn't responded with a comprehensive jobs plan to replace it. JobKeeper is really the main item of concern from my point of view. LEIGH SALES: But the point Josh Frydenberg just made was that the measures introduced were always targeted and temporary and that they have to come off at some point? You think about those income tax cuts for example, Leigh, an average worker will get about $50 a fortnight at the same time as millions of workers are losing $300 a fortnight with the cuts to JobKeeper. Jim Chalmers is the federal Labor MP for Rankin and the Shadow Treasurer. But we only saw them for the first time a few hours ago. Word lid van Facebook om met Jim Chalmers en anderen in contact te komen. We are inclined to support those, Leigh. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. 3,726 talking about this. I spent the first half of last week in Far North Queensland which is doing it extremely tough because of the closure of the international border. Thank you for the opportunity to represent you and the community I was born in, grew up in, live in and love. So I think for those 928,000 workers, they have been left out and left behind and left in the lurch and that's very concerning to us. 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