Live From Canberragrad

Comrades, we are under siege. Counter-revolutionaries are depicting Wayne Swanevski's budget, as a calculated attack on the ruling class. Of course it is! Class enemies would rob the proletariat of their birthright. We aim to take it back.


Solemnly do I speak to you tonight from the Black Sea Lodge, determined more than ever that the Politburo's five-year plan of re-industrialisation proceed as we seek to depress the Australian ruble from currently elevated levels.  Forced collectivisation and the transfer of superannuation monies will keep the invading brigands at bay and send class traitors to the gulag. So repeat after me in the words of the martyrs:

• Death to the Abbot armies of occupation!
• Long live our glorious motherland, her freedom and her independence!
• Under the banner of Lenin-onward to victory!

 Comrades, please be seated now, switch over from the bourgeois entertainment of Q and A and watch as Swanevski and your dear leader share our thoughts on the televisual device: