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As economic and electoral pressure mounts, Labor needs a circuit-breaker. The Treasurer could be the sacrificial lamb for the Prime Minister’s failures.
AARON PATRICK: While the Prime Minister promises financial help for families, the Treasurer emphasises tough financial conditions, setting up a struggle over December’s mid-year Budget review.
Struggling households slammed by eye-watering fuel prices, punishing interest rate hikes, and tumbling property values have been told not to expect any fresh cost-of-living relief from Canberra.
Labor’s economic credentials have taken a battering, but one key MP says the Treasurer has been doing an “extraordinary job”.
