The latest budget is an amalgam of incompetence and greed, where the right thing is done belatedly and poorly
If, as the polls predict, the latest budget will be the final one delivered by this LNP government, then it will be a perfectly apt way to go out. It was a document that reflected the full personality of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government – an amalgam of incompetence and greed, where the right thing is done belatedly and poorly, and underlying it all is a desire to deliver the largest benefits to the wealthy.
The budget writing process is generally a tedious series of briefings and meetings and meetings and briefings where the budgetary costs and political worth of measures are weighed and evaluated and then decided upon. The numbers are crunched and fudged, the speech is written and revised (and in the case this year, revised so as to remove any semblance of a memorable phrase). And then it is delivered. Done.
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