(D. Woodard and W. S. Burroughs with Dreamachine, 1997, John Aes-Nihil via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

After nine years of hard pushback on social change in Australia, it is pleasing to see that our federal election result holds hope for the near future. For many its like waking from a long, slow, nightmare that it looked like might never end because of the spell of complacency that had been cast so effectively over us.