Smoothly slick for southern city dwellers but not cutting much slack north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
It was also a major political gamble.
When tomorrow as widely expected PM Turnbull announces a double dissolution election, all bets are off.
Tonight Bill Shorten will deliver Labor’s Budget reply, the only parliamentary debate Tuesday’s formal announcement will have.
Thus the Budget will be a document without formal parliamentary scrutiny, though no one should expect it will pass unremarked during the longish election campaign ahead.
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