Despite the well publicised differences between Turnbull and his immediate predecessor, Australia does not have a new government. But if Labor plays its cards right for the next 12 months, it actually could

“Your father is glued to the television,” my mother emailed me from Sydney. “He’s so excited to be in Australia during the change.”

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