How often recently have you heard that ‘Ukraine has changed everything’? It has certainly changed my previously intended vote in the upcoming federal election.

More than a year ago, I had abandoned the Coalition, saying that (apart from his family and church) Prime Minister Scott Morrison believed in nothing. Despairingly seeking some reason to resile from that, on 12 June 2021 in this journal I asked, ‘Why no action on the ABC?’ Perhaps one action that could woo me back to voting for the Coalition would be a strong prime ministerial move to slash the funding of a taxpayer-funded body which,...