Why It’s Time To Cut Through Budget Week Bullshit The AUWU is organising their own reply to the budget, for those living in and resisting the poverty machine. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Here we go again, the budget circus is in town. Anticipation is palpable among members of the political and media class. “Leaks” abound that are usually just recycled stories about old announcements. Professional commentators gear up for their ritual of classifying us into “winners” and “losers”. All of this pageantry, so little consideration of the fact that we’re, you know, actually human beings. No consideration of whether the people hurt by bad social policy have actual