It’s no snub to Anthony Albanese to point out that he didn’t win so much as Peter Dutton lost. The point is he won big time. Albanese secured victory on a scale exceeding Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, or Julia Gillard - indeed any Labor leader back to John Curtin in the middle of World War 2.

The question now is what he does with this victory. Will he use his dominance to carve out a new vision for Australia or continue pursuing marginal and incremental changes? And when will the hubris that always consumes successful Prime Minister’s begin eating away at his personality so he looses the virtues that created that success?

The only hint of what this term offers so far has come from Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Straight after the scale of the victory was apparent he insisted that this term would be about productivity first and combatting inflation second (a reversal of previous priorities).

He, like many others in Labor, is urging Albanese to seize this fleeting opportunity to create a new future for the country.

The next question is what shape will this take? Chalmers’ focus on productivity is great - but it’s worth understanding what this means for disability care.

It’s notoriously difficult to boost productivity in the sector. This represents a challenge and it’s unrealistic to expect that everything will just be allowed to go on as before.

The original architect of the NDIS, Bill Shorten, has now left parliament and the new government won’t be tied to its current settings. Growth rates exceeding inflation will no longer be tolerated and even from within Labor the whispers of the need for significant change are growing louder.

It would be a significant mistake to think this new reform drive will leave the disability sector untouched.