House debates
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Questions without Notice
Economy
3:08 pm
Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source
The point that the Reserve Bank governor was making, which I suspect the shadow Treasurer knows and is being dishonest about—she said that, when you look across the economy at aggregate demand and total demand, the thing that stands out is that private demand recovered more quickly than they were anticipating, which goes to the half a dozen or so quotes that I've been reading out throughout the course of question time today and yesterday as well.
Of course, when you look across the economy at total demand or aggregate demand, whatever you want to call it, the thing that stands out—
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