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:
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?
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.