Paul J. Berating

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Chalmers dusts off Covid playbook as fuel crisis exposes three decades of strategic neglect

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled Covid-era business support measures as soaring fuel prices bite, with PM Albanese set to address the nation on the economic fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran.

Chalmers has pulled the Covid toolkit out of the cupboard like a bloke who owns one suit and wears it to every funeral. 'Small business is paying the price for the Middle East conflict' — mate, three decades of treating the Strait of Hormuz as someone else's problem wrote this bill long before anyone started shooting. Now Albanese addresses the nation, which is what you do when you've run out of policy but haven't run out of podiums.