After several weeks of being caught on the hop by the severity of the bushfires, it appears Scott Morrison has finally found surer footing. In one of the neatest strategic and linguistic twists of his prime ministership, and with a dexterity and political cunning that has been sorely missing recently, the prime minister this week equated the vague, spurious notion of ‘emissions reductions’ with the very real concept of ‘hazard reductions’, giving both equal billing in the future environmental well-being of our nation.