A year ago today Anthony Albanese took to the stage late in the evening at Labor HQ to claim victory, albeit a slim one, in the federal election, seeing in the first change of government since 2013.
Since then Labor, with its one-seat majority in the lower house (which now sits at two after the Aston by-election), has put in place many of its key election promises, working with an expanded Greens bloc and crossbench in the Senate.
The prime minister and his senior team have also been at pains to sell Labor's vision on the international stage and make it clear it has a new way of governing.
But it hasn't all been smooth sailing and a number of curve balls may make the next 12 months harder than the first.
Here are some of the key moments from the past year.
Overseas diplomacy
As well as legislative changes (which we'll get to in a moment), the government has spent much of its first year on the global stage.
Within days of winning the election, Mr Albanese and a few of his senior team were sworn into office so he could travel to the Quad meeting in Tokyo.
Speaking in Hiroshima on Sunday, the prime minister reflected on the pace of the past year for his team.
"I said as well that we would hit the ground running, and I started running on the 22nd of May and haven't stopped since," Mr Albanese said.
As well as the visits to Japan, Mr Albanese has made official visits to Indonesia, Europe (for the NATO summit and an official visit to Ukraine), the Pacific, India (which included a chariot-ride around Narenda Modi cricket stadium) and to San Diego to announce the final details of the AUKUS submarine deal.
The prime minister has also met with China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali and flagged he intended to visit Beijing at the invitation of the Chinese government.
Thawing relations with China has seen some early signs tariffs on Australian barley and wine may soon be lifted, with a ban on importing Australian timber overturned last week.
But it's not just Mr Albanese who has stepped up international travel, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has already visited China for the first ministerial talks in years, while also making multiple trips to different countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
The increased presence in the Pacific aligns with Labor's election promise to boost foreign aid and foster relationships to counter China's rising influence in the region.
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said the focus on international diplomacy was in part because the government believed Australia had "lost pace with the rest of the world".
"We're getting back at the table and obviously our international relationships, an important part of the work Penny Wong and the prime minister is doing right now," she said.
"Making sure people see Australia back at the international table, and you know, wanting to be a strong presence in our region."
Policies through parliament
At home, the government has sought to legislate as many of its election commitments as possible — with more success on some than others.
It legislated its emissions reductions targets of 43 per cent by 2030 and net zero by 2050, as well as tightening the safeguard mechanism that imposes emissions limits on the country's 214 largest-polluting facilities.
Legislation to establish the new National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) also made it through parliament, with the NACC set to start from July 1.
Changes to child care and plans to gradually introduce more generous Paid Parental Leave have also passed.
"We've laid a lot of foundations and I'm pretty excited about [that] … there's a hell of a lot to do, but we've got something to build on now," Leader of the House and Labor frontbencher Tony Burke said.
The government's also delivered two budgets.
The next 12 months
The year hasn't been all smooth sailing.
Rising inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures continue to hurt the bank balances of millions of Australians, and likely still will even with the government's intervention in the energy market and targeted relief in the latest budget.
Plus with a national housing crisis underway, the government is still facing an uphill battle on its centrepiece housing policy, with the Greens and Coalition joining forces to stop it passing in the Senate.
Undoubtedly, though, the biggest item on the government's agenda in the next year is the Voice to Parliament referendum, which will be held this year.
It was another of the government's central election commitments and with the Coalition supporting the No campaign, each leader has staked a lot on the referendum's outcome.
A national education campaign on the Voice and the referendum process was launched on Sunday.
What about the Coalition?
It has also been 12 months since the defeat of the Coalition, which also lost in the Aston by-election … the first time in decades that's happened
Coalition frontbencher Simon Birmingham was asked on Insiders what the Liberals and Nationals had done to win back voters who turned their backs at the election, particularly professionals and women.
He would not say what immediate work had been or was being done to target those groups, instead saying:
"The test for us will be at the next election in terms of taking forward a set of policies, a set of candidates and a campaign approach that does win back those cohorts of voters who we lost," he said.
"The work, of course, is underway in terms of policy development.
"We need to see outcomes in terms of candidate selection as well and these are very important tasks for the party.
"It's an ongoing task and it's one that needs to reach a crescendo at that point of the next election to give voters the confidence that we heard messages from the last election."
