Government’s 'big stick' got whittled down to something much smaller | Katharine Murphy

It’s hard to campaign on a non-existent ‘big stick’, although our politics are so post-modern that anything is possible

It got a bit lost in the frenzy of Thursday, the grim final sitting day of a grim parliamentary year, but the Morrison government’s much vaunted “big stick” got whittled away to something much smaller.

On current indications, the stick is not only small, but invisible.

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