This is a budget that won't die wondering — but we've seen this act before

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ANALYSIS: This is a budget that won't die wondering — but we've seen this act before

For Frydenberg, it's been a whirlwind ride. Three years ago, the former professional tennis player was a bandmate of Tony Abbott's who was then promoted by Malcolm Turnbull. Last year, he was a bandmate of Malcolm Turnbull's who found himself promoted to deputy Liberal leader and Treasurer under Scott Morrison.

Most of its thousands of pages of detail — its billions in road spending, its infrastructure investments, its tax cuts, its lordly generosity to select regional arts organisations — will depend for survival more on the whim of the stubby pencils of marginal seat voters than it will on the bribability of crossbench Australian senators. And maybe that's a good thing.And tonight — if only for tonight — the Frydenberg Dream is alive.

The Frydenberg Dream reads like a campaign map. Road spending for every state and territory. Congestion-busting packages for Australia's most congested bits. More doctors and mental health services for the less-congested bits. A million and a half for the Dark Mofo festival in Tasmania . More than $20 million for the Bundanon Arts Trust in regional NSW. Another $25 million for something called the Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre in WA.

According to the Budget papers, this price spike will contribute $2.6 billion toward the2019/20 surplus, which is good news for us. Not good news for Brazil, where the catastrophic dam collapse that took out the iron ore mines that caused the price spike also killed more than 200 people.

 

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Will they throw in a set of steak knives if we buy it?

People carnt be that stupid

Everything you’ve ever wanted in this budget, plus a block of flats in Tasmania. 😂

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