After a watershed week on climate, Albanese is eyeing the Hawke playbook for his upcoming jobs summit

‘Anthony Albanese’s eyes are firmly on the jobs summit next month … summiting is an opening Labor salvo. Before things get fierce, let’s cooperate.’ Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

You would have to be watching politics very closely to have caught Anthony Albanese’s tone when talking about unions over the past couple of weeks.

The prime minister has been talking about unions in question time because Peter Dutton has gone full retro on union thuggery in response to Labor’s decision to gut the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) more quickly than expected.