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Many of us are keen to stop hearing the “b” word budget but there’s no getting around it. The budget was historical for its big-spending measures (though thanks to many pre-budget announcements, it was also historically boring).
The
Crikey team spent six hours in budget lockup (and many more afterwards) analysing it, with Bernard Keane commenting on the Liberals’ money-backed ploy to stay in power, Guy Rundle writing on Labor’s lack of a narrative, while I covered the cuts and investments in the social sector. Despite the rhetoric around women in this budget, Cam Wilson found the Liberals were targeting young men and retirees in their advertising spend, while Kishor Napier-Raman took a look at the budget’s secrets.
COMPLETELY SPENT
Crikey, in our late-night edition, explaining that:
The Coalition has publicly junked its “small government” furphy with deficits to eclipse $100 billion for the next two years, despite unemployment being expected to fall below 5%, and to exceed $50 billion in 2024-25, “making this the first budget in history designed to buy two elections in a row”
Aged care will receive $17.7 billion over four years, including plans for 80,000 new home care packages, $3.9 billion to meet long-standing demands for staffing ratios in residential care; and $3.2 billion to increase the Government Basic Daily Fee per resident paid to residential providers by $10 a day
I’m thrilled to have recently joined the
Crikey team as associate editor. I’ll be diving into stories that are at the intersection of the internet, politics and Australian culture like the tale of why outgoing maverick MP George Christensen is suddenly promoting books on Amazon.
One of the biggest stories this week was the backlash to the government’s India travel ban a ban that, as Bernard Keane wrote, seemed very much like a dog-whistle that blew up in the prime minister’s mouth.
And speaking of the prime minister, David Hardaker got his hands on a copy of ScoMo’s honors thesis. The document, written when Morrison was 21, reveals his plan for how the Christian Brethren could influence Australian society. Prescient stuff for a future PM.
(Image: AP/Andy Wong)
Crikey readers were divided on Bernard Keane’s call for Australia to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and for good reason: there are high costs to weigh on each side of the argument. Elsewhere, readers didn’t hold back on the issue of Scott Morrison’s particular brand of religiosity, and continued to hew into the government’s bizarre “milkshake consent” video (with suggestions on how to do it better).
Max Jensen writes: No, we shouldn’t boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Our athletes have worked for years to attend these Olympics, and for some, it will be their last chance. Let the politicians, their families, their staff and keepers boycott the Olympics by not watching or attending if that makes them feel righteous.