We need to reform the way we talk about reform. Unless we urgently implement "reform reform", it’s likely that hard-working mums and dads will lose their jobs and life savings and, obviously, that would be the fault of the Labor Party. And the unions. And anyone else opposed to the reform reforms.

In Australia, powerful groups act as though they own the word reform. Anyone who opposes their preferred changes is labelled retrograde and a hater of "hard-working mums and dads".