Thanks to Glenn Connley for that break – it seems like it has been quite the time!

Here is how Mike Bowers saw some of that:

The Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a press conference on the June Quarter Financial figures in the blue room of Parliament House Canberra. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese with the Minister for Health, Mark Butler, and Professor Richard Scolyer.
Mark Butler and Anthony Albanese
Jim Chalmers is not pointing fingers