As PM, Scott Morrison focused on stopping Labor, but at the opening of the new parliament, Anthony Albanese envisioned a more humanist business
; superficially, an inane talking point, but substantively about shrinking the institutions and traditions that might admonish or constrain prime ministerial impulse.
The unfinished business now, Albanese said, was the Uluru statement. His old friend Linda Burney would take the country on the next leg of the journey towards reconciliation. The prime minister’s eyes brimmed as he visualised an opportunity of capturing power for a purpose. This could have been rampant egoism, or indulgence, conjuring the miserable ghost of thwarted prime ministers. But on Tuesday, it was motivation. Albanese thinks three steps ahead as a means of gaining clarity in the present.
So the mantra of the 47th parliament was set: politics is about doing things. Morrison’s politics, contrived in intra-day tactics, hewn in focus groups, was largely about stopping Labor from doing things. That era had now ended. It was time to elevate, time to renew the institutions that are ramparts of Australian democracy.
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