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12 April 2025

9:00 AM

12 April 2025

9:00 AM

In a recent post-budget interview Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed his tax cuts (worth about a Mars Bar a day) are ‘not to be sneezed at’. He wants no sniffs and sneezes of disapproval of his brimming confidence (‘we have turned the corner’). But where did this odd expression (‘not to be sneezed at’) come from?

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