Our favourite (extremely normal) budget responses

we would Love To be present in the installation of the feature visual for this morning’s piece inside AustralianA story accusing Jim Chalmers’ “budget tax grab” of “targeting older Australians”.

We wonder whether the photographer or reporter needed to say the following things out loud, and if so, did it cause them to question the premise of their writing?

“So if we could stop you in front of your Porsche in the driveway of one of your properties, wearing sandals and shorts, we think that would be a very vivid demonstration of the human cost of these policies….”

Bob Conkey is identical to the rest of Australia’s newspaper buyers, right down to his name: a 79-year-old man says things like: “I was very lucky.