As every historian knows, the frame you use to analyse the past affects the stories you tell about that past. Time is foremost among those frames.
Richard Flanagan wrote last month that the 2022 federal election result marked the end of the Howard Era. By that he meant the end of a pernicious kind of politics where institutions were not only hollowed out, but rubbished.
Wind the clock back further, and you start to see echoes of an earlier era, specifically one Labor governments presided over.
