{"id":562685,"date":"2026-03-25T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562685\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:42:09","slug":"treasurer-jim-chalmers-responds-to-latest-inflation-figures-question-time-returns-to-parliament-house-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562685\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers responds to latest inflation figures; question time returns to Parliament House in Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a dramatic expulsion from the chamber, we\u2019ve had a moment of comedy, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched an attack on the Coalition and One Nation, as he referenced an absent Barnaby Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose opposite used to say that they supported free trade. They used to do that, but they\u2019ve just gone backwards,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so spooked by the one guy [Joyce] who hasn\u2019t even bothered to turn up today &#8230; that they\u2019re adopting their policies and just trying to be One Nation-lite when it comes to trade and trade issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, left, with her lower house MP and former Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/63b6600b5ce268e1e938a5d148a870930c8c7c9b.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, left, with her lower house MP and former Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>As Albanese finished the sentence, Joyce re-entered the chamber, wagging his finger at the prime minister to jeers from the government benches.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce called out to the prime minister that while he may not have been in the chamber, he was watching the proceedings on one of the television\u2019s just outside the doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor that tail to wag the dog, Mr Speaker, [Joyce] doesn\u2019t even have to be in the room,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a dramatic expulsion from the chamber, we\u2019ve had a moment of comedy, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-562685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}