Jim Chalmers on how Australia’s economy can survive in an uncertain world - podcast

On Monday, Jim Chalmers released Treasury’s economic forecast for the next 40 years in the Albanese government’s second intergenerational report. The outlook predicts major challenges on geopolitics, the AI transformation, and for the first time, deaths will overtake births in Australia within a few decades. The treasurer speaks with Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy , and economics editor, Patrick Commins , about why he’s optimistic Labor’s policy agenda is preparing the country for an unpredictable future : Think Australia would be better off with less migration? The numbers tell a different story Health, wealth and housing: here’s what forecasters think Australia will look like in 2066