At the last federal election, Labor’s policies were nothing if not ambitious and bold. And with the benefit of hindsight, foolhardy. As one Labor MP subsequently put it, “we made ourselves so big a target you could see us from the moon”.

For next year’s election, Labor is going to try something different as it goes from one extreme to the other. It appears the ALP is determined to present Scott Morrison with a target to be measured in molecular or even atomic terms.