Scott Morrison is positioning to use Australia’s deepest economic contraction since the 1930s to try to forge some Team Australia consensus around contentious policy reforms needed to revive job growth and to pay down the debt on the other side of the COVID-19 crisis.

In true political form, Labor leader Anthony Albanese accuses him of dusting off an ideological “right-wing agenda” to attack unions and to cut Australia’s internationally uncompetitive 30 per cent company tax rate for its friends in the big end of town.