It is less a team of trailblazers and more the same well-worn cast of characters, reheated and rebranded. Chris Bowen, previously Rudd’s Assistant Treasurer, is now busy strangling the energy sector with climate zealotry. Jason Clare, Richard Marles, Mark Butler – same passengers, same clown car, new destinations. And as if that weren’t enough, other ghosts of the Rudd era still linger like a bad smell. Instead of course correction, the Albanese government seems convinced the problem was never the policies – just the politics.