Former Labor minister Graham Richardson says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are a “great combination”.
“They are both well qualified in economics, they understand the issues, they understand ordinary Australians and what they’re after,” Mr Richardson told Sky News Australia.
“If you look at them, they’ve never moved far from home, they continue to live in their electorates, they never chose to move to some flasher part of town and I think that says a lot about both of them.”
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