Hon. Dr Jim Chalmers MP - Press Conference
2 September 2026
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Press Conferences Australian Parliament
06:47 - 08:06
Speaker 1
G'day Treasurer. Shane. Hello everyone. Whose phone is this? Mine.
That's fine. Just answer it for me. Vibrates. Okay, good to go? Okay.
Look, I'll put out a detailed statement on today's national accounts, but let me just touch on a few elements and take your questions. As you know, growth is 0.4 in the quarter, 2.1 through the year with the revisions and 2.4 annual.
This is a robust result in really challenging international circumstances. The Australian economy is robust, it is resilient in the face of global uncertainty and conflict. And that's the main take-out of these from these national accounts. Now people are still under pressure, but we can see in these national accounts that incomes are growing, housing investment picked up, there's a solid pipeline of business investment, and the private economy is driving the growth. When it comes to international benchmarks, our annual growth is as strong as the US and much stronger than every other major advanced economy.
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