What Happens in Budget Lock-Up
Digital creators return to the budget lock-up as officials impose tighter access rules and warn of misinformation risks, with 13 invited last year.
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How the federal budget became unlocked – and allowed the digital world in
As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down another federal budget, attention is once again turning to one of Canberra’s most tightly controlled democratic traditions: the budget lock-up. For decades, journalists from legacy media organisations have gathered in a secure room, phones confiscated, to scrutinise the government’s fiscal blueprint before its public release. Last year, this norm was disrupted. The 2025 budget lock-up was unprecede…
Sydney Morning Herald
What happens in budget lockup
The federal budget is a gigantic undertaking, with the first planning meetings of cabinet’s Expenditure Review Committee taking place in September. About 1.30pm today, hundreds of journalists will reluctantly hand over their phones, disconnect from the internet and spend the next six hours locked up in specially prepared newsrooms in Canberra, Sydney and beyond.
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