#FinalObs 1 is Wright on the timing of the federal budget and the election #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Medhora saying it is Mardi Gras and we need to be alert to attacks on LGBTQI+ people around the world #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Clarke saying something about the opposition Environment spokesman going to WA with Dutton to promote more gas extraction I think #Insiders

#FinalObs 1 is Speers on GST carve up and quoting Saul Eslake talking to him, David Speers. #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is Stutchbury with a lengthy lead in about Chalmers and Bullock to reach his point of blaming the government for government spending/inflation #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Hewett saying we can’t get caught up in everything Trump says (she called Albanese weak for the exact same position earlier) and will the Starmer Macron visit to DC make everything worse or what and Speers says fascinating #Insiders

#FinalObs 1 is Katsoukas saying Liberal Party? candidates in Leichhardt MacPherson and Braddon are concerned they are not getting enough support and this might give Labor an opening? I think. Sorry I was looking for #TalkingPictures at the bad place #Insiders

#FinalObs 1 is Sakkal saying speculation is Labor will call the election Friday morning and leak it Thursday to deflect from the budget reply speech and the coalition folks leaking against Angus Taylor are on a hit list if the coalition wins #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is Greber saying there are Labor corflutes going up and the government gets all the benefits of governing and campaigning at the same time as tho he has just discovered the power of incumbency and spruiks a Karvelas podcast while Speers interrupts to bray GOOD PLUG #Insiders

#FinalObs 4 is Armstrong saying predicting the election call is a fools errand and she got her suitcase out of her garage🫡 and will there be a budget or pefo #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is Kenny I missed who he was talking about but presumably Coleman (foreign affairs). Kenny says a shadow minister got the job due to “significant number of Chinese Aust voters in his electorate” and will not stay in that job after the election. Speers says Senator Paterson #Insiders