Federal parliament’s resumption on Tuesday provides Anthony Albanese with an opportunity he must take to make an unambiguous statement about the scourge of grotesque anti-Semitism sweeping our nation.

With Labor friends like Brian Burke, the twice-jailed former West Australian Labor premier, who needs enemies? But in politics, as in life, it is possible to be both a rogue and sometimes right.

The Albanese government fell into government three years ago aided by a public thirst for action on climate change and a new approach to energy. These former strengths for Labor are not looking so ...