This article is published in the 4Oth Anniversary Penthouse AU…

For too long we’ve been trained to view Australia’s political landscape as a vista of fortified hills, bookended by impassible deserts. Here, Labor and the Coalition occupy cragged forts built before living memory. Twins on the horizon, they gaze suspiciously at each other through cracks in the stone and ribbons of smoke settling after the cyclic war of election… (available here)