The last time I saw Anthony Albanese on the main stage of a Labor launch was in the dying days of the Rudd government when he was the deputy prime minister.
That funereal outing in 2013 mourned the lost opportunity of a government completely destroyed by the insanity of the Rudd/Gillard civil war, the aggressive hyper partisanship of Tony Abbott, and powerful institutional forces that wanted to see the back of the most progressive Labor government since Whitlam.
