POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life

He’s up before sunrise , pounding the pavement in a cap and running shorts. He’s still up late into the night , having slipped into a comfortable sweater while he checks figures in a darkened office by lamplight, fuelled by sugar-free Red Bull. It’s “decision week”, Jim Chalmers declares of the annual federal budget in a video that pinged around political group chats this week. The treasurer was keen to take people behind the scenes on social media. …