The stately architecture of budget week follows a similar path each time, but this year it had the Dutton Button added in, writes Annabel Crabb.
From that point of the speech on, Mr Dutton appeared to be spinning a chocolate wheel of policy, ranging from old favourites to flavour pops like banning live advertising of sports betting during games, to an impassioned endorsement of small modular nuclear energy. Nukes? Okaaaaay. Plus $4 million for Ovarian Cancer Australia, which seems very fair but also weirdly specific in a speech otherwise remarkable for its wild haymakers.
Indeed, whereas the Morrison/Frydenberg "surplus" of 2019/20 was over promoted with an optimism that makes the Fyre Festival organising committee look conservative, the Albanese/Chalmers surplus was announced almost apologetically, on page 12 of the Treasurer's 15-page budget speech.
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