Treasurers are often poor guides to historical significance: the most significant budgets have usually only gained due recognition in retrospect.
But the greater significance of that day in Dallas – beyond the arguments about the grassy knoll and the Zapruder film – is the effect the killing had on how the Kennedy presidency would be viewed thereafter.
It also follows estimates that the Galilee Basin mines feeding the port would produce enough coal to far outstrip Australia's annual carbon emissions, indicating a climate change contribution of global significance.
It's a testament to the significance of the Snowden disclosures and also to the hard work of many principled legislators on both sides of the aisle," Jameel Jaffer, the group's deputy legal director, said in a statement.
Scala has made similar comments before but in light of the ongoing Swiss investigation and confirmation that the FBI has now widened its probe to include 2018 and 2022, his intervention takes on a new significance.
Though the significance of his debut may have been a talking point for others, it was not a matter of race for Liverani.
"After all, this is a unique monument of universal significance that can only be understood and admired if it is complete.
There's no reason to suspect that Hockey's budget carries any such significance.
The reality is of course that the SDLP is now facing a crisis of major historical significance: whether to continue attempting to 'outgreen' Sinn Fein as leaders of the nationalist 'tribe', or to pursue steadfastly that other part of their original, founding identity as a genuine social democratic party on the European model.
The Saudis – the king's formal title is "guardian of the two holy places" (of Mecca and Medina) – bill themselves as the leaders of the Sunni Muslim world, a role that has taken on increased significance in the face of the jihadi threat and the atmosphere of sectarianism across the region.
And it is the significance of clothing in relation to a specific culture that makes me uncomfortable with the casual adoption of traditional attire for "an occasion".
