A showing of poor judgment, unfairness and diminished respect for the contribution of others.

The factional displacement of industry and technology minister, Ed Husic, from the Albanese cabinet represents an appalling denial of Husic’s diligence and application in bringing the core and emerging technologies of the digital age to the centre of Australian public policy.

More than that, as the cabinet’s sole Muslim member, Husic’s expulsion from the ministry proffers contempt for the measured and centrist support provided by the broader Muslim community to the Labor Party at the general election.

And for what? To keep up some notional proportional count between factions and elements of the Right of the party between states, in this case between representatives of New South Wales and Victoria.

The Prime Minister has recently made notable ‘captain’s calls’ in a number of otherwise rules-based pre-selection ballots. His non-intervention in respect of a New South Wales minister on this occasion is, in effect, an endorsement of a representative of another state group – in this case, the Victorian Right faction led by Richard Marles. A faction demonstrably devoid of creativity and capacity.

And to round out the day, the factional lightweights also dumped the cabinet’s most effective and significant Jewish member, the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus. A showing of poor judgment, unfairness and diminished respect for the contribution of others.