Julian Assange's return is being framed as a triumph by the Australian government, but there are awkward parts to the storyHas there been a recent political story that has been subject to so much different framing, by so many different people and interests, as the legal resolution of the Julian Assange case and
A more fundamental question though goes to the framing of just how Julian Assange came to be coming home at all, if you stop and think about it. All that seems to have been lost in the haze somewhat this week. While not endorsing any of Assange's actions, the prime minister said what the government was doing was "exactly the right thing to achieve an outcome"."There were moments when this required a range of decisions to be made by the Department of Justice in the United States, which of course is not subject to political influence.
"We're not in a contest of machismo. What we do is we get things done. And my government advocated strategically, patiently, in a calibrated way, and we achieved this outcome." At the most pragmatic of political levels, Assange's return to Australia dominated the news cycle for a couple of days. This gave Anthony Albanese a platform from which to argue he was just getting on with the job at hand, in his quiet way, at a time when politics has been getting exceptionally noisy, and the one group in Canberra who don't seem to have been in control of framing any of the discussions is the government.
While all the noise has gone on, the underlying policy call by the government in the budget hasn't changed. It is what it always was: an attempt to thread a very fine needle between spending money for cost-of-living relief and not spending too much money so as not to fuel inflation.
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