In 2022 Josh Frydenberg gave the budget game away when he was reported justifying the many billions of dollars spent on Aukus by saying, “everything is affordable if it’s a priority”. Julia Gillard in 2014 also revealed the budget reality when she told the audience at the Joan Kirner justice oration “Budgets are made of choices. They make us … think about what we care about the most”.
When we put those two lines together it becomes what I call the Budget Commandment: “Everything is affordable if we choose to care about it”.
