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Wilson Asset Management chairman Geoff Wilson has blasted Jim Chalmers for making “pathetic and disappointing” comments about the ­Reserve Bank’s efforts to tame inflation.

The boss of Coles’s struggling liquor arm believes a trial rebranding of some stores under a single ‘Liquorland’ banner could be taken nationally, ending the diffuse and sometimes confusing retail liquor offer from Coles that features three different brands and that has underperformed for years.

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Harris, Chalmers, Bandt endanger our currency, markets
By ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN
Business Columnist
If Australian inflation stays high and somehow Jim Chalmers gets the Reserve Bank to reduce interest rates, then our currency, bond and share markets would be trashed.
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