I started off looking about a month ago at all the then-current issues in federal politics - the boat people crisis, and maybe the issue of getting rid of temporary visas; how successful the alcopops bill was, whether government was actually going to announce if Australia was in recession. It looked pretty interesting, but I realised straight away that getting a comment in person from anyone in federal politics was going to be difficult.
Anyway, by the time it came along that I was actually starting the assignment, heaven sent me the budget. :) It had plenty to go on, and is big news. There were lots of things to look at, increase in pensions, increase in infrastructure, science funding, art funding, education reform, as well as the Oppositions response to the budget, which in my opinion was pretty pathetic. One change to medicare rebate in exchange for a cigarette tax hike. Then they ranted on about how Swan didn't actually say how much they were in deficit. Big whoop.
I decided on doing science funding research, because I'm sick of doing art, and I think I might like to go into science reporting.
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