The Inquirer section of the Weekend Australian March 16-17 kicked off with a veritable drum roll performed vigorously by editor-at-large Paul Kelly: CULTURE SHIFT POINTS TO POLITICAL CHANGE followed by the sub-head ‘The Zeitgeist has proved to be the ALP’s friend and the Liberals’ foe.’ It is of course quite rare even for the doughty Australian to employ what are self-evidently ‘foreign’ words.