The Budget Reply

AFTER much bally-hoo and to the accompaniment of knees, mostly left ones, knocking in terror, Treasurer Joe Hockey has finally revealed where the state will spend stupendous sums and from whom and how it proposes to extract them. The ABC has been less-than-minimally trimmed, the arts crowd will barely see the scissors and middle-class welfare has not been materially crimped, just re-arranged a bit. Still, some grumble-bunnies cannot resist the opportunity to whine, as Zeg notes

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