Jim Chalmers has been charged with establishing the Albanese government’s economic record in the mind of voters, while also telling people the Coalition want to cut.

That’s the point of this dixer and while we tend to ignore dixers (because they are press releases) this sums up what he will be saying throughout the election:

That side of the house is focused on cuts and conflict and culture wars. After three years of opposition, those opposite still don’t have any costed or coherent or credible economic policies.

All they have is secret costs and secret cuts, which will make people worse off.

And the reason they will make people worse off on that side of the house is that they can’t find 10 billion a year for free long lunches, or they can’t find the three $50 billion in cuts they say they want to impose. They can’t find the 600 billion they need for this nuclear fantasy without going after Medicare again, without going after pension indexation, without going after housing and without going after wages. And so the choice at the election is going to be really, really clear, that coalition of cuts and conflict and culture wars making Australians worse off and taking Australia backwards or this prime minister and his Labor government, getting on top of this inflation challenge, rolling out the cost of living, help making making things better for people when it comes to the tax cuts and energy bill relief and building Australia’s future.