How the federal budget became unlocked – and allowed the digital world in
- Written by Claire Fitzpatrick, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down another federal budget, attention is once again turning to one of Canberra’s most tightly controlled democratic traditions: the budget lock-up.
For decades, journalists from legacy media organisations have gathered in a secure room, phones confiscated, to scrutinise the government’s...
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