Budget Session Bingo: Every Walkout, Ranked

A walkout is a performance with a fixed script and infinite room for interpretation.

The choreography tier list. The synchronised aisle-march scores high on optics and low on originality. The solo storm-out is riskier — it only works if the cameras are already on you.

Timing is everything. Walking out before the reply lets the treasury bench speak unchallenged. Walking out after means you got your soundbite first. The second is better politics; the first is better television.

What it actually costs. Question Hour lost to disruption is not recovered. Over a full session that compounds into real oversight forgone — the least entertaining and most important line in this piece.

Rate it burnt if you like. The kernel underneath is that scrutiny is the thing being traded away.