‘Highest spending budget’: Matt Canavan slams Jim Chalmers’ ‘fuel’ on inflation fire

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has slammed Treasurer Jim Chalmers for putting “more fuel” on the inflation fire with the “highest spending budget" outside the COVID-19 response since the Global Financial Crisis. “More government spending is only going to fuel inflation,” Mr Canavan told Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt. “That is what the government has done over the past year. “I said last year, their budget last year was the highest spending budget outside the Coronavirus response, since Kevin Rudd during the GFC. “The Treasurer just put more fuel on it.”