Who knew being the treasurer was such a fun job? Fresh from delivering a forecast budget surplus for the first time in what would be 15 years, Jim Chalmers is the man of many hats on the front page of Wednesday morning's newspapers. So is he a magician, a prince, an soldier or a tightrope walker? That's going to depend on which paper you pick up.
The West Australian always goes big on the day after the night before and this year's budget is no exception.
In a mighty topical bit of cartooning, the westerners have coronated the treasurer as Prince Chalming.
His "crowning glory" includes cheaper energy bills, more doctor visits and higher welfare benefits.
In a stateriotic nod to the revenue boost spurred in part by surging natural resources prices, he has a scroll saying "thank God for the people of WA".
Further east, Jim is cast as a soldier in the Albanese army, enlisted to fight the invading scourge of bills.
He has a lot to juggle, from a plump-looking piggy bank to health, submarines and grocery and energy prices.
In The Age, it's the treasurer on a tightrope, carrying his prime minister high above the inflation canyon.
It's certainly a juggling act, using extra revenue from resources, petrol and cigarettes to balance out new costs ranging from submarines and rent assistance through to doctors and jobs.
It's also a circus of sorts in the Australian Financial Review, with a tuxedo-clad Chalmers pulling rabbits and hundreds out of a hat.
Or wait, is that a mug? A cheeky little nod to the "Back in Black" memorabilia the former government produced when Josh Frydenberg predicted a surplus in 2019.
You don't have to be a mindreader to guess what Reserve Bank of Australia governor and inflation-buster-in-chief Philip Lowe thinks of the affair.
As has become tradition at News Corp, The Courier-Mail eschews the flashy cartoons.
Instead, Chalmers holds his daughter as the paper trumpets a budget "for the true battlers".
On 9news.com.au, readers found the whole gamut of easy-to-digest budget coverage.
The winners and losers were highlighted, along with a raft of other reads explaining who's getting what, and Chalmers' big budget night sit-down interview.