At 63, our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is old enough to remember the scene from the 1991 cowboy comedy City Slickers, where Billy Crystal’s character Mitch, is on horseback, driving a herd of cattle with his mates Phil and Ed, while trying to explain to Phil how he could watch one show on television, while recording another on his home video recorder.After four fruitless hours of listening to the same explanation from Mitch over and over, their exasperated mate Ed shouts: “He doesn’t get it! He’ll never get it! The cows can tape something by now!”Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles