I doubt that we’d face an election before the budget gets handed out. Whoever is the Labor leader will want to stuff the budget full of pork to try to bribe the voters.
If the government falls then it will be interesting to see how it will impact the budget process. The new government would not have much time to get a grip on the real state of the government’s finances before having to punch out a budget.
Abbott will need to have both guts and brains if he’s going to fix the damage done by 6 years of the Rudd-Gillard/Greens goat rodeo.
You’re probably right, but I can still see Julia going to the GG and asking for an election, rather than tendering her resignation.