So, the election has come and gone. It was a disappointing, loud, and ultimately vacuous show about nothing.

It saw the most catastrophic policy-making in the nation’s history, also known as the great Covid bungle (or crime, depending on where you stand in relation to Hanlon’s Razor and conspiracy thinking), collide with perhaps the biggest ethical issues Australia needed to address (lost rights, freedoms traduced, flawed governance, executive overreach, federalism abandoned, police brutality, and the house arrest of citizens, to name just a few).