AI disruption is Chalmers’ chance for budget repair

Hugh’s March 2026 AFR column argued that the Treasurer should treat AI disruption as a reason to repair the budget, not a reason to wait. The policy responses are not yet known. The fiscal space they will require is already missing.

Labor has an opportunity, across this Budget and the next, and alongside the Intergenerational Report, to create a burning platform for fiscal reform. Delay does not preserve options. It consumes them.

Read the original column in the AFR.

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