Treasurer Jim Chalmers on what to expect on budget night.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his first budget later this month. The 44-year-old has been tipped as ‘one to watch’ since he was a 20-something joining his local ALP branch.

In this conversation, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Jamila Rizvi discuss everything from the cost of living and housing prices, to childcare and the role of women, to climate change and why politicians never seem to talk about young people on budget night. 

We discover what drives the country’s new main economic manager, whose advice does he listen to and how do you answer a question as big as how to spend everyone else 's money?

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