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The Numbers and the Noise

The Federal Budget is the most consequential act of government in any parliamentary year. It is also the one most susceptible to managed opacity: it arrives with its own theatre, its own rehearsed vocabulary, and a press cycle so compressed...

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The Abandoned Centre

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The Hollow Base

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