View from The Hill: Albanese says he wants Chalmers there for the long haul

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

In politics, rumour feeds on rumour, and the line between rumour and reality can become increasingly blurred. At the extreme, rumour can in itself help change reality.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, struggling with a mass of economic problems, is presently the centre of the Canberra rumour mill – about his relationship with the prime minister, about colleagues’ allegedly undermining him, even about suggestions he could be shifted out of the Treasury portfolio.

Just before he jetted off on Tuesday to the COP climate conference in Turkey, Albanese was asked at a news conference:…

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