In that vast phalanx of taxpayer-funded partisan advisers surrounding Prime Minister Albanese, couldn’t one of them have reminded him of Aesop’s fable, ‘The boy who cried wolf’?

The moral is that a known liar will never be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

That is the fate of the Prime Minister and his government with its secret agenda, a government which must surely hold the record for its surprisingly early descent into lies and sleaze.