There is a feeling in politics right now – widely shared among politicos and the otherwise engaged, and even if we struggle to name it – that we are standing on the edge of something. A precipice. A tipping point. A moment where the ground beneath us is no longer solid and might fall away.

It feels like a moment but we didn’t land here overnight. For years, tectonic plates have shifted beneath the surface of Australian and global politics – slowly, separately, in ways that might have been easy to treat as isolated problems had we acted.

Now these plates are overlapping and compounding. They will create new faultlines, new volcanoes, a whole new terrain. The rules that have traditionally determined who wins government and how power is exercised are being rewritten – whether we’re ready or not.

So, what are these plates? A massive generational shift in voting behaviour, with young people voting wildly differently to their parents, and with zero party loyalty. An energy crisis triggered by a war that nobody fully understands (and nobody seems to know how to stop). A housing system that functions as a wealth transfer machine instead of a realistic pathway to security. The rise of artificial intelligence, reshaping work and power in ways we are only........

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