"Backflip" is a lazy journalistic cliché. Looking at every policy decision through the lens of imagined leadership tensions is equally unhelpful to the media-consuming public. Both are news of little consequence.

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The news of consequence about last week's superannuation announcement , on the other hand, was: what was done; how was it done; why it needed doing; and what was not done.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Picture by Gary Ramage

Yet headline after headline talked of Treasurer Jim Chalmers doing a "backflip" over superannuation - from the staid Australian Financial Review to the

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