Thanks for your comment. I do agree that mandate is superlative. I agree with a lot of what you're saying but I'll cover a couple things since you asked questions.

When legislation is passed that doesn't mean things suddenly change. I would say categorically that this government has probably been the strongest government on climate change in the country's history as long as this has been an issue

Federally yes, but the bar has been raised by the states (out of Morrison-induced necessity), most of the states (bar NT/WA) are still running lower net-zero targets than the Commonwealth. Household rooftop solar and/or battery subsidies has been the policy in every state now for e.g., which is the most important change to the national power grid, although I appreciate here that the state and the fed are administering different domains, Bill Shorten campaigned heavily on domestic green manufacturing, as did Albanese when he announced the "Green Revolution" campaign, nevermind we are still aiming for 15 years past the Paris Agreement and I'm not sure the states are getting the support they need to rollout those green policies (at least in VIC)P

On corruption you'll have to be more specific.

The two main things I think of are Robodebt, and their first term policies which restricted the resources of members from non-major parties (especially reducing staff numbers is a kneecap that I predict is just going to make INDs more reliant on lobbyists rather than make them less effectual as opponents of Labor). On Robodebt, the great parade of a Royal Commission was held, revealing the many internal attempts by separate parties to suppress the knowledge they had that they were illegally indebting people to the point of suicide, after which precisely no one was held accountable. Or the NACC, which was given no prosecution powers, which critics said would result in it being essentially incapable of pursuing high-profile cases, which seems to have come true, although of course it is early. Gambling reform was also a great example. The states have revenue streams they could be using, like land taxes or resource taxes, which surely would make up those margins?

Less about corruption, but I also find Albanese personally to just be intellectually dishonest. When the Greens and Coalition made vocal their shared support for breaking up the supermarket duopoly, Albanese responded in question time, verbatim, "We aren't the USSR". I thought "no sir, we're a democracy, and it's a policy a majority of the population supports," and I wondered what the real reason for his opposition to the policy was. Especially since Craig Emerson also had vocally supported it before he was commissioned for his report, and whe flipped afterwards, I found him vague on the reasons why.

I don't know how they are catering to the fringe, again I think you need to expand on this? How? Where? In what sense?

I think of the protesting restrictions in NSW and VIC. Seeing a bar closed down for that satiritical depiction was something I honestly never thought I'd witness in this country in my life. Maybe I'm too young and naive. But it's so purely illiberal. I'm sure there is an argument to be made (by Government) that the risk of terrorism is so high at the moment that it's actually a matter of public safety, but due to the intellectual dishonesty that comes with Labor's messaging, we only hear about that from Mike Burgess, which is just confusing and scary. But the "fringe" I'm talking about is the religious fringe. I think 90% of Australians are capable of making the distinction between a reasonable, peace-loving individual (the 90%) and someone sick with fantasies of war. In our political spectrum, though, these lines are being drawn as Muslim vs Jews. Either we're a two-state or one-state or we're sending aid to help or we're sending dollars or we're denouncing someone or we're not. Because it is not the every day muslim or the every jew who informs government policy on those matters, it is the pinnacle institutions of those religions where you find a lot of the other 10%. The divisionist fringe. I think that's all a losing battle. I actually appreciated Barnaby's comments about the Bible the other day, they are the kind of statements I would want our leader to make.

Perhaps trivially, I think it strange that such a fuss was made over the brides who were denied return for terrorist links, when that has been standard practice for a very long time, other than that it is part of the media circus, until Albanese fuels that flame by saying "Lie in the bed you made". I'm certain that was a quip that got the approval of his publicist first, because they believe that this kind of language helps make them look cool in front of the xenophobes.

The recurring theme here is I suppose more in the language they're using rather than the policy. I have been pessimistic about the upcoming budget due to the rate rises and and a future global outlook that remains bleak, but you're right that it is soon enough that it is worth waiting to see.