This year’s budget is made up of 997 pages of spending and revenue measures across four budget papers, along with a 74-page glossary, 48 press releases, a 15-page speech, plus sundry fact sheets, bills, portfolio budget statements and explanatory memorandums.
In short, it’s a lot of reading, even for a six-hour lock-up. So we found reprieve in a search of interesting bits that might otherwise get overlooked. Here are 11 of them.