Canberrans – or Ken Behrens as they have become known – are stopping me in the street, their greetings universally featuring the word “relief”. Theirs is a relief that the government of Australia is returning to the Westminster system.
On the day of their swearing in, ministers in the Albanese government were meeting with officials of their departments to discuss the brief prepared for an incoming government.
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Craig Emerson is managing director of Emerson Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the ANU, director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT and adjunct professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.
