In terms of a "pattern and a future" I'd say the reaction to the budget is a rejection of a perceived direction. In the USA 1% of the population control 40% of the wealth. What's been rejected in this budget isn't the $1 extra per week for petrol, or even necessarily the $7 to see the doctor, it's the direction of public policy. They see these "reforms" as a means to an end that they don't like. It's not the few $ per week they're paying today they're rejecting, it's the breaking of principles that lead to changes in society that will exist in perpetuity. 23 years ago Australia could afford services that today (supposedly) we can't afford after 23 years of continuous economic growth. What we could afford when on a relative basis we were poor, we can't afford now that we're rich. They perceive this quite rightly as being driven by ideology not economics. I hope the rejection is flat, unrelenting, total and permanent.
