We’ll all be rooned…It’s not just Hanrahan in Catholic priest Patrick Hartigan’s iconic century-old poetry collection Around the Boree Log who reckons that whatever the future holds, rain, hail or shine, ‘we’ll all be rooned before the year is out’. Last week, new Treasurer Jim Chalmers had to admit that Australia faces such tough economic times ahead that Labor’s key election commitments like ending stagnant real wage growth and throwing even more money into pet projects (and bigger budget deficits) than in the Morrison government’s record spending spree, were no longer achievable for years – a reality that was clearly...