Jim Chalmers wanted to talk about the RBA. Donald Trump had other ideas

Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Brett Worthington gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. Cabinet rooms are typically places of great secrecy. Ministers sit around the table, thrash out policies and then emerge speaking with one voice. In Donald Trump’s America, it’s more performative than secretive. Inviting cameras in to the meeting this week, for almost two hours, journalists lobbed questions at the president as his secretaries largely sat in silence. Streamed live on YouTube, the White House broadcast looked much like a traditional news broadcast, with the strap across the bottom…