crikey.com.au has been denied access to the federal Budget lock-up by the Treasury. Treasury claim (rather stupidly, in my opinion) that Crikey is not “mainstream media”. But Crikey was allowed to attend last year.

Curious. Or political. Crikey now has about 20,000 subscribers plus about 100,000 regular website vistors. That sounds pretty “mainstream” to me.

Crikey has complained to the Commonwealth Ombudsman. We’ll see what happens.