BUDGET 2020: This is the start of my thread looking at Australia’s federal Budget, delayed from its usual deliver in May because of the ’flu or something. This is a very narrow look, so first some background. #Budget2020
If you don’t know who I am and what I usually write about then check out stilgherrian.com and authory.com/Stilgherrian respectively. I’m mostly be staying in my lane because there will be plenty of other people doing the headlines. #Budget2020
The official Budget documents will appear at budget.gov.au at 7.30pm AEDT, and there will be links out to each department’s detailed number. There’s a lot of detail, so here’s how to approach it... #Budget2020
Mon plan, holiday edition: Slow morning; 1300 lunch with a co-conspirator; shopping; train to Wentworth Falls; data wrangling. A slow day overall, in fact.
Further alleged plans may be found in the Weekly Wrap, along with some curious recommendations.
People seem to be getting worked up over the possibility that Donald Trump was (or wasn’t) in two different rooms five minutes apart. How long does it take to walk into another room? 20 seconds? And OMFG he posed for a photo op! This is not the controversy you’re looking for.
Remember when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a wheelchair user but that entire fact was hidden from the American public? businessinsider.com.au/how-fdr-hid-hi…
This is EXACTLY how new civil works projects are begun, right? Really? Well it must be, because here’s ABC News documenting the process. abc.net.au/news/2020-08-2…