To invoke former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s rather uninspiring 2007 election night advice to triumphant Labor true believers – namely having “a strong cup of tea if you want, even an Iced VoVo [but] the celebration stops there” – a certain level of caution is required in the aftermath of Anthony Albanese’s victory some fifteen years later.

Whatever quibbles people have about the weakness of Labor’s federal primary vote last weekend, teal influence, or an out-of-puff, out-of-touch, nine-year-old Coalition government that ran a woeful campaign and allowed the election to become a referendum on Scott Morrison: Albanese’s triumph places him alongside Whitlam, Hawke and Rudd in the pantheon of ALP leaders who took the party into government from opposition since World War II.