PoliticsAustralia news live: Jim Chalmers weighs in on One Nation WA byelection win; $2m for Indigenous racism online register

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says voters were focused on inflation, living costs and real wages, while defending Treasury’s forecast that recent tax changes would reduce house-price growth by 2% over the next couple of years. Commonwealth Bank has forecast prices could fall by almost 10% across capital cities, while Chalmers attributes current weakness partly to interest rates.

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