Gillard soothes the pig-eaters as embattled MP saves his bacon

By Judith Ireland
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:37pm, first published May 10 2012 - 3:00am

Despite the government's best attempts to leak the entire budget before it is handed down, there's always concern on budget night about hidden surprises. You know, the stuff that's not highlighted in the gleaming government brochures that comes back to bite the populace. Yesterday, as people woke up feeling a little (splutter) fatigued from budget celebrations, there was a mini-panic that Wayne Swan had left Australia with another type of hangover.

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