Greeted by the naive as a breath of fresh air, the only significant difference Anthony Albanese has demonstrated from his predecessor is that he does have more common sense. An early example was his willingness to appear on the serious media which Bill Shorten avoided like the plague.

As part of his reaction to any serious interrogation of his extremist and destructive global warming agenda, Shorten dismissed questions as to cost as ‘dumb’, abusing critics as ‘cave-dwellers’ and ‘knuckle-draggers’.