Federal Budget 2024 for The Australian

The Australian’s journalists, producers, designers and editors start the planning of The Australian’s Federal Budget release weeks and sometimes months in advance. The coverage delivers insights from the budget papers in a digestible format for our readers, from decoding the documents to offering commentary but most importantly providing a space for our community to comment and interact with each other.

Digital storytelling through data and formulating a visual identity were my main priorities leading up to The Australian’s Budget Release. We held weekly editorial meetings to discuss the roll out across all sections of the paper, including social media and off-platform. I worked on producing templates for the social media editor to use for stories, short form video and posts.

The Federal Budget project gives me creative freedom every year to shape the visual identity of the stories and the representation of the data.