In the digital age, weekly print magazines are not supposed to break stories, especially before the actual events have taken place. But sometimes one gets lucky. We refer to our cover story last week that celebrated the Abbott government’s repeal of Julia Gillard’s hugely unpopular carbon tax. The view that the tax would be axed any day was so commonplace among government senators, their opponents and the Canberra press gallery pundits that it seemed reckless to contradict it.