Budget 2014: The front pages
If you don’t know what Joe Hockey looks like you’ll probably be a bit baffled by most of this morning’s front pages, which feature cartoon versions of our treasurer weilding everything from a ‘debt’ syringe to a chainsaw. Here’s what the front pages said.
We’ll start with the one that’s normally best in class, News Corp’s Courier Mail:
Similarly Seven West Media’s Perth paper The West Australian has gone with a diet theme:
News Corp’s Sydney tabloid the Daily telegraph went for the cartoon doctor:
While Melbourne’s Herald Sun gets topical with a Godzilla reference (and Hockey as Shrek…?):
Fairfax’s metro dailies went for a 20-page wrap around detailing the budget, which were noticably light on ads, and were no less vocal in their opinions on the budget measures, with the Sydney Morning Herald trumpeting:
The Age also went in a similar vein, with a series of implements coming out of Joe Hockey’s neck:
For the national papers The Australian wears it’s heart on its sleeve:
As does the Australian Financial Review:
Sadly the NT News couldn’t find a way to crowbar the word clacker into its budget splash. Instead it had to cover the state budget in the Northern Territory as well as the federal one:
Or more specifically, the tweet they put out last night:
Meanwhile Twitter caught Prime Minister Tony Abbott popping in to a couple of parties after the budget news.
One was with Daily Telegraph editor Paul ‘Boris’ Whittaker, which was deleted by Sunday Tele chief reporter Linda Silmalis quick smart:
But the PM wasn’t being partisan, he also popped along to see his old sparring partners at Fairfax:
Comment from top of page re. the budget: ‘freeing up corporate Australia to create more money that will then be distributed to the masses’. Is this supposed to be irony
or has corporate Australia recently been hijacked by wannabe Fidel Castro’s?
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These headlines and front pages are atrocious. Why didn’t we get such colourful attempts at journalism when the Labor Party had their first attempt at producing a budget – when Wayne Swan told us lie after lie after lie – no one blinked an eye… …as if it was all OK.
$270billion in debt later – this is what we get?
Atrocious.
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