The House

On any given sitting day, the Parliamentary precinct hums with activity, teeming with MPs, journalists, staffers, officials, and also weaving their way through the hallways of democracy: school students.
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Budget Day is a Broadway production with dance numbers (emphasis on numbers), undue laughter and applause, and everyone’s a critic. Then comes the legislating.
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After a three-hour long fusillade of sound and fury you might think budget week was over, but that's when the urgency begins.
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From sales pitches to opposition counter-branding, on Budget Day the performance matters nearly as much the numbers.
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With the House hogging the sitting week, Committees squeeze crucial work into the margins. Phil visits an early session on modern slavery and terminated school subjects.
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