Dossier
Whitlam era
Coverage of Whitlam era in the Nexus archive.
- A Zara dress, the Jim Reaper and a communist state: how Australia’s media interpreted the budget
The Australian media reacted to Jim Chalmers' budget with the Murdoch papers criticizing it as a radical redistribution of wealth, while the Daily Telegraph described it as a turn to communism. The budget was met with strong opinions from various news outlets. The reactions were largely negative towards the budget.