“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,” wrote George Orwell in the dystopian classic 1984. We, on the other hand, had a temperate day in November, and the masses appeared more worried about the outcome of the US election than an authoritarian coup by the Albanese Government. I did have to chuckle; how bad could a policy be when even the Greens abstain from supporting the bill?

The Albanese Government, backed by the teals, secured safe passage of Austr