Lean times, tough choices: can Jim Chalmers meet the moment? (opens in new tab)

As the fallout from the US-Israel threatens to overshadow Labor’s agenda, the treasurer says this budget will be his most ambitious but also most difficultFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJim Chalmers cuts a lean figure in his Parliament House office, and, unusually for a man of such apparently limitless energy, a weary one.It’s days out from the most consequential Labor budget in a generation, but I open with a r...