Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the mirror in the bedroom at Kirribilli House.

His tailor deserved some credit but, truth be told, it takes more than expensively cut fabric to look this good. What was it that the Poms said, something about the man maketh the clothes?

They were right, especially when it came to this battler from the slums of Camperdown.