Nat Barr’s Sunrise interview with Jim Chalmers goes horribly wrong as they are accused of illegal act on live TV

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is furious after he was booed and accused of trespassing during a live interview in Perth.

Dr Chalmers was responding to a question from Nat Barr on Channel Seven’s Sunrise morning show when an angry man interrupted them and accused them of trespassing.

“You can’t film here, mate,” the man can be heard saying off-screen.

A woman on Dr. Chalmer’s team tries to tell the man to “just finish” the interview, while the distracted treasurer tries to answer a question.

‘Oh, of course not, Nat,’ Dr. Chalmers begins. ‘You know, we’ve been making a similar point about the pressures on the economy for a while.’

Then you hear the man in the background repeatedly asking the film crew to leave.

“I believe you know you’re in violation? All three of you?” he tells the crew before turning his attention to the red-faced treasurer.

“Do you understand that, buddy? Do you understand that you’re trespassing? Do you understand that you’re trespassing on private property and you’re refusing to leave? Yeah? Okay. Can you please pack up the camera and leave? Thank you.

Sunrise presenter Natalie Barr appeared completely oblivious to the incident unfolding as she continued to ask Dr Chalmers about the cost of living (pictured)

Barr appeared completely oblivious to the incident unfolding as she continued to question Dr Chalmers about the alleged rift between the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Albanian government.

This came after the Chancellor accused interest rates of “destroying the economy” in what was seen by many as a thinly veiled attack on the RBA.

“Is this an attempt to shift attention?” Barr asked Tuesday.

Mr Chalmers denied that he wanted to draw attention to the RBA or that there had been a change in government rhetoric.

“I think it goes without saying that rising interest rates … slow our economy. I’ve been making that point for a couple of months,” he said.

He said it would be “strange” if, as finance minister, he could not explain the weak economic growth and dismissed speculation about a break with the RBA.

Dr. Chalmers is pictured during Question Time in August

“I think a lot of people understand the pressures that higher interest rates bring, and that’s what I recognize,” he said.

“We have different responsibilities, but we have the same goal. Our goal is to get inflation in our economy under control.

“We’ve made some progress, but we need to go further. We need to do it in a way that doesn’t put additional pressure on people or destroy an economy that we expect to be quite weak already.”

He is making his statements ahead of the new figures on the gross domestic product (GDP) that will be published on Wednesday. These figures are expected to show economic growth of 0.2 percent.

This would mean a drop in annual growth from 1.1 percent to 0.9 percent.

Barr later asked Dr Chalmers if he was tightening the wording because “he doesn’t want Australians to think (cost of living pressures) are their fault”.

He said he “took responsibility for our part in the fight against inflation.”

“I take responsibility for the surpluses that we have delivered, the cost of living that we are rolling out. We had anticipated a weaker economy in the budget. We are now working on that, so I take responsibility.”