Scott Morrison has devoted some attention over the past few days to counselling journalists against over interpreting the views of the Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe. But it doesn’t take a genius or a beat-up merchant to see that the bloke who runs Australia’s central bank is telling the Coalition to get cracking to stoke the economy, and quickly.

The 46th parliament opened this week, and as I mentioned in a piece a couple of days ago, this particular opening was a strange experience as an observer. Labor expected to win the May election, but lost. That was a hard collision, so it’s suffering from a collective concussion. Most government MPs fully expected to lose the contest, but they won, so the question eddying around the place this week was “what now”?