Phew. That’s a relief. The Budget Emergency has been downgraded by the need to keep a reasonable number of people in jobs and smallish businesses solvent – for the time being. The Border Emergency, now in the hands of a military task force operating inside a comical Cone of Silence, has been demoted to passing irritant (unless you are one of the asylum seekers who drowns at sea in the course of this irritation. Or who is shipped off post-haste to an island detention centre. Or who is left in limbo in Australia on a punitive Temporary Protection Visa).

Tony Abbott will turn 56 in November, around the time parliament returns to sit. By the time he is voted out in late 2022 (unless he is removed by nervous Coalition backbenchers earlier that year), he will be almost 65 – a few years shy of retirement age, but close enough. Abbott will be Australia’s last boomer Prime Minister.