Canberra on the tiles: Crikey at the post-budget booze-ups - Crikey

Once the budget comes down the bureaucrats and journos head out to celebrate the wins and losses. Crikey joined the throng at Canberra’s swankiest — and dodgiest — drinking holes.

If budget night is “schoolies for journos” then the early hours of this morning was the disappointing Lismore version: light on the booze (and actual light booze in some instances) to slam the door fast on a disappointing Gillard government incapable of communicating its triumphs to a jaded press pack.

After hijacking an old bottle of white out of Bernard Keane’s

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