Scott Morrison, having parted Labor’s red sea and led his astonished people to the promised land, must seize his Moses moment. He and his right hand man, Joshua (named after Moses’ all-conquering general) must show appropriate gratitude for this miraculous deliverance and smash some pagan idols.

That was the first item of business for the conquering Israelites, decapitating the cults of Canaan, principally the climate god Baal who determined rain, crops and survival.