00:00Bunches at Canberra Times are a real team effort. There might not be many newsrooms that let sport reporters in
00:09on the action, but we do hear.
00:13Blocker, what will you be looking for or looking at in the Bunch of Peppers tomorrow?
00:19Lani, always looking out for a new stadium. Hopefully that one sneaks in there eventually. Not expecting it this year.
00:25But looking out for which sports projects, fields around Canberra, basketball stadiums, that sort of thing will be built over
00:33the next period and how much they get in funding.
00:36Oh, hi, Brian.
00:38Hello. How are you?
00:39I'm good. How are you?
00:40I'm good as well. Very excited for the budget.
00:43And how have you been doing to prepare?
00:46Unsurprisingly, I am looking at the numbers again and looking at the areas that are expected to have great hikes.
00:54And let's see, you know, who are the unlucky suburbs.
00:58And I'm trying to do a map like we did last year to provide more information for you guys.
01:05I arrive home in Luzak and prepare a healthy homemade meal for dinner.
01:11So I'm at my best tomorrow.
01:15It's budget day and the report comes out to us journalists at about 7.30am.
01:24And fortunately for me, I don't have to look at it that early.
01:29The assembly reporters will be pouring through that right now.
01:34And I just have to chill out, get ready for work.
01:39Media are one of the organisations that receive budget papers under an embargo.
01:48So we have quite a long time to read through it.
01:52It still never feels like enough time.
01:57So a whole heap of reporters from across the newsroom are pouring through the budget papers throughout the day.
02:07This morning, I was really excited.
02:10So I logged in early to read.
02:13And I go, because I'm a rounds reporter and I'm just focusing on one area,
02:17I went straight to my, the education statement.
02:21Just scan through that.
02:24Usually it's just like, like a little bit of a checklist in your brain.
02:27You're like, yep, I've got this, I've got this.
02:29I knew that that was coming.
02:31And then other times have some questions or things I need to look at again.
02:37Sometimes the budget papers show things that we knew were happening
02:41or the government has said they're going to do,
02:44but it gives a lot of detail into when that money is going to be spent
02:47and how much of it and where it's coming from.
02:50So it's an important transparency piece.
02:53While all this is happening, it is also a sitting day in the legislative assembly.
03:02So I do also have one ear, literally, with my head thrown in, listening to the live stream.
03:09And as it turns out, they do drop a very important report into the health system,
03:16which I'll have to look at later tonight.
03:20While we're in here in the city office, the two assembly reporters,
03:25Lucy and Jasper, who've been up very early in the morning,
03:30they have at 10am a briefing with Treasury officials where they can ask questions.
03:37And then at 12pm, they attend a press conference with the Treasurer and the Public Service Minister.
03:48So while the Minister is standing at the podium, I'm looking for different sort of emotions,
03:54whether he's happy, sad, or he looks upset, just so the images correspond with the journalist's stories and any sort
04:05of angle they go with.
04:06So when I'm in the press conference, I'm closely listening to what he's saying and hoping that he will express
04:14his face in different sort of ways
04:16so I can capture different kind of elements, whether that's low or high, just so we cover all bases, so
04:23in the future we can use those images.
04:25What's your favourite?
04:28From today?
04:29Yeah, all persons who photograph, like?
04:33Probably Elizabeth Lee or Penny Wong, because they're really an expression, they express themselves really highly and they like to,
04:43they don't hold back on their emotions as like some politicians.
04:48By the time it's nearly five o'clock, most of us have followed our stories, uploaded videos and our stories
04:57are set to go live on the homepage for five o'clock.
05:02And then the print team will be busy fitting all our stories into the paper for tomorrow.
05:12How was budget day?
05:15It was pretty stressful, pretty fast-paced as per usual.
05:20I think the major thing in my round, which is the property round, was the stamp duty exemption for first
05:28home buyers.
05:29I think that's going to make a pretty major difference for people individually.
05:34Is there anything about the whole day that was unexpected?
05:38Well, I've just found out that we had budget snacks in the tea room at five o'clock.
05:45They've been here all day.
05:46I've only gotten one small caramel chocolate bar, which is nice, but I know that there were doughnuts, so that's
05:54disappointing.
05:55Yes.
05:56I did provide those snacks and I did put a message out before I even arrived.
06:03At 1.30, I see the message was sent.
06:07And you were not...
06:08I apologize.
06:09Where was I?
06:10What was I doing?
06:11I don't know.
06:12You weren't here.
06:14Well, we were getting lunch.
06:15Oh, we were getting lunch.
06:16We must have been getting lunch.
06:16No, you weren't because you were in that office.
06:19Oh.
06:20You must have made the toilet.
06:22God damn it.
06:25God damn it.
06:25God damn it.
06:26I made the toilet.
06:27I'll make the toilet every week.
06:28You were watching it.
06:28How many things happen would be?
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