What is it about Labor governments and summits? You’d have thought with a resounding victory like that of May 3 they would not need to ask anyone what to do.

Exactly a month later, newly minted Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth is now holding yet another gathering, specifically to “kick-start productivity”, in line with the Treasurer’s Damascene realisation that productivity improvement might slow the country’s slide into bankruptcy. I guess that is why he earns the big bucks.