Budget 2021 reply speech: Anthony Albanese delivers Labor response to Australia federal budget
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And on that note, budget week draws to a close.
The MPs are heading home, although having been a flat budget week, I don’t think the budget sell will be overly enthusiastic. I guess that when you’ve created a budget with no real narrative, it makes it a little hard to sell the message. But still.
Lols.
In the snap doorstop Simon Birmingham called to talk about the budget reply speech (what other reason is there), he says “this is a budget reply speech barely worth commenting on”.
