Scott Morrison believes in miracles. This is perhaps why he expected us all to ignore what we had seen with our own eyes this week and instead believe him when he quivered with outrage that French President Emmanuel Macron had questioned “Australia’s integrity”.

It was the Prime Minister, of course, who was in Macron’s sights in Rome this week, not the Australian nation, when he was questioned about the cancellation of a $90 billion submarine contract – the largest in Australia’s history.