Oh no! Yet another economic summit, this time a three-day reform roundtable in August. It might have taken Jesus only this long to rise from the dead; raising the Australian economy from near death will take much longer and even consensus on a growth agenda is a big ask in a short week.

Amanda Rishworth’s efforts to forge open dialogue between employers (are there any left?) and unions two weeks ago appear to have ended in silence rather than dialogue; perhaps that is why Treasurer Chalmers has positioned his next national grandstand as an opportunity for tax, not further industrial reform. In any case, the union movement has already extracted its pound of flesh and there’s no way they will give it back.