On Monday 21 September 2026, Treasurer of Australia, The Hon Jim Chalmers MP, delivered the 2026 ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture and launched the 2026 Intergenerational Report, at University House, ANU.
The event was moderated by AuSI Director, Professor Mark Kenny, and is available to watch via ANU TV.
About the Speaker
Jim Chalmers has been Treasurer of Australia since May 2022, and has now delivered five Budgets.
Prior to the election of the Albanese Labor Government he served as Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Finance.
He has been the Member for Rankin in the House of Representatives since 2013, proudly representing the people and suburbs of southern Brisbane and Logan City where he was born, grew up and made a home with Laura, Leo, Annabel, and Jack.
Before Parliament, he was the Executive Director of the Chifley Research Centre and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer.
He has a PhD in political science and international relations from the Australian National University, and a first class honours degree in public policy from Griffith University.
He is a qualified company director and the author of two books, Changing Jobs: the Fair Go in the New Machine Age (with Mike Quigley in 2017) and an earlier book about the Global Financial Crisis, Glory Daze (in 2013).
Watch
You can watch the public lecture in full on the ANU TV YouTube channel.
Listen
The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP also joined Professor Mark Kenny and Dr Liz Allen on the Democracy Sausage podcast to unpack the 2026 Intergenerational Report.
Location
University House - The Australian National University
Speaker
- The Hon Jim Chalmers MP
- Prof Mark Kenny (moderator)
Event series
Contact
- ANU Australian Studies Institute