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Conversion Road to Recovery

Two people look at clothes on the ground saying, 'They've cast off everything they once believed in'. Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison walk towards a 'budget' sun past an 'election' sign pointing the way.

Cartoonists relished pointing out that some aspects of the Coalition government’s May Budget appeared to abandon previously espoused Liberal values. In Harry Bruce’s rendering, a blue tie lies abandoned as the Prime Minister and Treasurer race with open arms towards a COVID-19-powered sun.