Treasurer Says Opposition Using ‘Division’ as Political Tactic

The comments come after Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton argued against giving visas to Gaza refugees temporarily.

Treasurer of Australia Jim Chalmers MP during post budget media interviews at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 15, 2024. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used an address to the Labor Party think tank to claim Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is deliberately using division as a political tactic.

Delivering the 2024 John Curtin Oration—which celebrates the former prime minister who led Labor to a landslide victory in 1943—Chalmers took aim at Dutton’s leadership.