Stolen from Crikey.com.
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Comparative Word Clouds - 2008 / 2009 Budget speeches.
Budget Speech Cloud 2008 Pre Recession Good Times

Budget Speech Word Cloud 2009 During Recession Bad Times

Tickled my fancy.
Update: Prompted by Miles, I found the ABC Budget Word Clouds. They use Wordle to generate comparative clouds between the Budget speech and the Budget Reply.
Treating asylum seekers will cost millions
Where do these conservative dickheads come from?
The pollies on the right have their knickers in a knot because desperate refugees from Afganistan or Sri Lanka or any other hell hole dare get in a leaky boat and try for Australia.
So this Doctor, come conservative Health Minister, decides to play politics on Anzac Day weekend bitching about how expensive it will be to treat refugees suffering burns.
He then hedges his bets by declaring that Australia is a compassionate country that always deals with humanitarian issue and that he's proud of the efforts of Doctors and Medicos.
Put up or shut up Dr.Brown. Reaffirm you Hippocratic Oath or piss off.
As a country we spend a lot more on idiot politicians, like you, than we do on desperate asylum seekers.
Read this Dr. Brown.
In a well planned show of love for China, thousands of Chinese students descended on Canberra with a simple objective... drown out any pro Tibet activity.
This was not a spontaneous outpouring of Olympic love.
I drove she who knows best to work in the city at 7 am and watched organised groupings marching to their designated locations along the torch relay route.
China has a frail sense of confidence if it still believes sheer numbers are the solution to their issues.
At least they had no counter to the sky writer slowly composing Free Tibet across the blue morning sky.
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