This year I had the opportunity to attend the Federal budget lock-up in Parliament House in Canberra, for New Matilda. You can read my analysis of the budget over at New Matilda (I called it “a gamble posing as prudence”), but I thought some LP readers might also be interested in what the lockup was like. John Quiggin has also posted about it too.
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