Lean times, tough choices: can Jim Chalmers meet the moment?

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Originally published byThe Guardian Australia

As the fallout from the US-Israel threatens to overshadow Labor’s agenda, the treasurer says this budget will be his most ambitious but also most difficult

Jim Chalmers cuts a lean figure in his Parliament House office, and, unusually for a man of such apparently limitless energy, a weary one.

It’s days out from the most consequential Labor budget in a generation, but I open with a remark about how he recently told a journalist that he had shed 17 kilograms – you can see it in his face.