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Budget Butter

Josh Frydenberg walks past Anthony Albanese saying 'You're toast!' Parliament House is in the background. A tub of butter is on a billboard with the text: 'Spreadable money' and 'I can't believe it's not a Labor budget!'

As a curator, I found Matt Golding’s use of breakfast foods to craft analogies delightful. In 2020 he set up a coronavirus and a jar of vegemite as drinking buddies and in 2021 he found a great use for a butter substitute topped off with a cutting takedown of the leader of the Opposition.

- Holly Williams, Behind the Lines curator, 2021