With a clean sweep of both houses of Parliament, the election victory ushers in a period of what many are clumsily calling ‘Whitlam 2.0 minus support for Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor’. Ludlam and Waters have already announced these top ten goals for the first 100 days in office:

1. A treaty that recognises the prior occupation and sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be enshrined in the constitution.

2. Government institutions' policies which respect the right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to self-determination, improvement of their social and economic conditions, to participate in decisions that affect them and to freely determine their development policies.

3. Close down offshore detention on Manus Island, saving $827 million, and on Nauru, saving $970 million.

4. Establish 30-day time limits on detention of refugees in Australia so initial health, security and ID checks can be done, and periodic judicial review of any detention thereafter.

5. Increase Australia's humanitarian intake to 30,000, which will make a difference and provide hope to people waiting.

6. Increase the Renewable Energy Target to 90% by 2030. This will give investors and electricity network regulators the long‐term policy certainty they need.

7. Increase Clean Energy Finance to $30 billion, $3 billion per year for ten years, to drive more change and private investment.

8. Fix the mining tax, so multinational mining corporations pay their fair share. This will raise $20.8 billion over three years.

9. End tax breaks for fossil fuel companies and assistance to carbon capture and storage programmes, to raise an additional $12 billion over the forward estimates.

10. Introduce a Public Support Levy on the big banks. A levy of just 0.2% on bank assets over $100 billion will raise $7.9 billion over three years.

After two decades of stumbling from one short-sighted, morally bankrupt public policy to another, citizens are euphoric that Australia finally has its vision back.