Well, the election is over and after six weeks of cringeworthy campaigning and callow reporting, we have again put our lives into the hands of those who advertise their manifest inadequacy to perform such a role.

The incoming Labor government has promised to use other people’s money to ‘improve’ Medicare, to ‘fix’ the National Disability Insurance Scheme, to put home purchases within easier reach of a few, to get people into electric cars and to accelerate emissions abatement while bringing down the price of electricity.