Well might the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg choke on his words in parliament when detailing the horrendous debt currently being imposed upon this country in the wake of the corona panic, sorry, pandemic. The hundreds of billions of dollars being frittered away have not only removed the single most important commitment upon which the Morrison government was elected — to return the nation to surplus — but it has entrenched a ‘big government to the rescue’ mentality that will prove very hard to shrug off.