Budget delivers population explosion, crashing environment, and widening inequality

They eschew the solid findings, that the 1970s were a high-water mark for equality. Though some proclaim the fall of neo-liberalism, Treasury is doggedly trickling down the wealth. As their rising tide lifts all boats.

But wait. Chalmers has taken on the approved OECD answer, to fend off those sorts of ticklish questions. Last October, he unveiled his own wellbeing framework, aka Measuring What Matters . Citizens, you have a couple of weeks yet, to respond to this year's Consultation Pack .

Yep, the Pack is like the Budget. Thus far, it baldly omits, or plays right down, critical measures of population, environment, and (in)equality. More like, Refusing to Measure What Matters.

Meanwhile, the Budget continues to omit population growth, from its fundamental table of Major Economic Parameters . That's plainly ridiculous.

As regards the environment, surely our global responsibilities begin at home . We're not doing the world much of a favour, via the sustained assault on our own fragile continent.

To Justin Trudeau or Time Magazine , Albanese comes across as a valiant reformer. Yet he's setting the worst environmental example, to the rest of the world. Both its richer and poorer nations.

It's great, that his Budget is temporarily "back in black". For now, at least, unemployment is still low. We still have our considerable freedoms. Plus, military-grade assault weapons are almost never deployed, at our malls and our schools.

Still, voters can never trust Albanese and Chalmers, around population and (in)equality. Their habitual gaslighting since 2019 is an embedded feature and not an unexpected bug.

Though you make that mild observation, at the risk of being shown the racist or the radical card.