Comments on: One sleep til Budget!

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:49:13 +0000

Somehow last year I managed to download the Budget papers in time to write something on the Wednesday morning. Let’s see how we go — ‘cos I’m in Sydney, not Canberra.

By: Michael Harvey

Michael Harvey — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:39:32 +0000

Loved the close up of Jack Nicholson at the end. Next time wear budget smugglers.

By: Kerrie Gandara

Kerrie Gandara — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:56:41 +0000

Amazing cinematography.

By: Grant Butler

Grant Butler — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:36:30 +0000

Nice to see you’ve upgraded the office furniture Bernard

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:25:09 +0000

Dan, oddly you mention as an adjective the kind of technology that is probably most likely to achieve that kind stability: (Bit)torrent.

By distributing large documents such as this with a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform, every hungry downloader will in fact be assisting every other hungry downloader.

By: dan cass

dan cass — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:15:41 +0000

Stilgherrian I love your techno-optimism. Have you checked any of the various sites that have been set up to ensure that the torrent of downloading does not fail us citizens on budget night?

Check out the one at Parliament House itself…. http://twitpic.com/4yn04

I will bring my # Huawei mobile router thingy to Parliament but reckon I’ll probably also try to nab the dead tree version too.

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:31:44 +0000

Now the Stemetil has kicked in - the tour was much more fun than any old school excursion. Geez the electronic media are slobs dumping equipment in corridors for everyone to trip over - where’s WH&S? Noticeble are the used food trays outside Fairfax with machines full of junk food for everyone else. If you’re really concerned about the vibes from Alan Ramsay’s desk just run the soundrack from Edward Scissorhands occasionally to exorcise the demons.
PS Stil, if you’re sitting in the Great Hall dining on a $2000 egg sandwhich wouldn’t you rather duck upstairs for the instant printed version of the Budget? MP’s who can’t use PC’s do.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:27:20 +0000

Boxes. Wooden boxes for media releases. And you say, Bernard, that NGOs and lobbyists will queue up there to get printed copies of the Budget papers? WTF? The Budget papers are all put online at budget.gov.au just as the Treasurer starts his speech. You can download them as PDFs, search for things that interest you and save a truckload of paper.