Scott Morrison’s premiership will be remembered for the way that this week has played out but I think that the reaction is over-the-top, and could be harmful. Leave aside questions of mental health (we’ve seen with the treatment of John Barilaro in New South Wales that Twitter doesn’t really care about “people” per se) the frightful and predictable dealing by the prime minister just shows how hidebound and fearful the Labor Party really is. If you criticise as illegal something that was just unconventional you basically short-circuit imagination in government, and if our era needs something is certainly needs politicians to think outside the box. The old “left” vs “right” paradigm that Anthony Albanese grew up worshipping is not very useful in an era when polarisation can take such extreme forms as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Trump attempt to take the Capitol by force in order to reverse the election result of 2020. We need politicians who are willing to do things that are unc...