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Good morning
Krishani Dhanji
Good morning, Krishani Dhanji with you here for the final sitting week of the month, and the final sitting week before the budget.
The prime minister will convene the national cabinet again today, the second since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. And this morning the government will introduce legislation to underwrite fuel supplies into Australia.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has been chosen for the hot seat today – he will be up and about doing the media rounds.
Meanwhile Anthony Albanese faces pressure not only in parliament but from the public, with two polls released this morning showing the prime minister’s faced a minor hit to his popularity, while One Nation’s primary vote is once again beating the Coalition.
I’ve got my coffee, I hope you’ve got yours – let’s get into it!
Key events
Government avoiding ‘heavier handed interventions’
Work from home “makes a lot of sense” right now says the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, but he says the government won’t be enforcing Covid-style mandates on households.
Ahead of the national cabinet meeting today, Chalmers tells ABC News Breakfast the states and territories and commonwealth will need to work together to avoid “harsher” measures as the crisis deepens.
He says that Australians shouldn’t cancel their Easter weekend road trips but should “use fuel responsibly.
The best way to get through this is to get through it together, to work through these issues, in a coordinated and ideally consistent way around the country. and the best way to avoid the kind of harsher Covid style measures is to do that work. And the better we do at the front end of this, challenge that we have in our economy, the more likely we are to avoid some of those kind of harsher measures and restrictions down the track.
We’re trying to avoid, those, kind of a heavier handed Covid interventions. But work from home in a number of instances makes a lot of sense. the Prime Minister has indicated, more of a willingness to go down the voluntary path than the compulsory path.
Good morning
Krishani Dhanji
Good morning, Krishani Dhanji with you here for the final sitting week of the month, and the final sitting week before the budget.
The prime minister will convene the national cabinet again today, the second since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. And this morning the government will introduce legislation to underwrite fuel supplies into Australia.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has been chosen for the hot seat today – he will be up and about doing the media rounds.
Meanwhile Anthony Albanese faces pressure not only in parliament but from the public, with two polls released this morning showing the prime minister’s faced a minor hit to his popularity, while One Nation’s primary vote is once again beating the Coalition.
I’ve got my coffee, I hope you’ve got yours – let’s get into it!
