Two dominant key messages helped the US Democratic Party avoid the predicted ‘red wave’ in that country’s mid-term elections a fortnight ago: that ‘the Nazis are coming to get you’ and ‘young women must have their right to abortion protected’.

With less originality than a Milli Vanilli concert, the kids in Dan Andrews’ monolithic PR department have come up with a similar approach: increase the ‘Nazis are everywhere!’ rhetoric and hand out ‘free tampons!’ to secure the female youth vote.

In the past couple of weeks we’ve been treated to these marvelous lines from the nation’s greatest political copycat.