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The Forgettable Budget

Never even made it to fish-wrap

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Edward Hollett
Apr 25, 2022
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The Premier’s deputy chief of staff highlighted the most important thing for her about budget day.

A week after the budget speech and all the ruckus that goes into delivering it, they become fish-wrap.

Garbage.

Bird-cage liner, for those who remember putting newspapers in the bottom of a cage to catch the guano from the budgies.

This past budget was worse.

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