Parliament has been enslaved by its fetishes – and it's time to end the downward spiral | Katharine Murphy

We cannot have another pointless, rudderless, parliament like the one that has just limped to an end

There was a moment or two on Wednesday, during Josh Frydenberg’s traditional post-budget address to the National Press Club, where the room felt so depressurised it seemed like oxygen masks could tumble from the ceiling.

This bit of whimsy gripped me so profoundly, at one point I caught myself looking up at the ceiling, before shaking myself and looking back at the podium.

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