Perhaps Scott Morrison is an enthusiastic scrapbooker.
Flick through his mid-campaign report and what you see is a collection of memories, albeit through coalition-tinted glasses.
"What has become very clear over these last four weeks is our economy is strong ... that Labor has a budget black hole regardless of what the arguments are about its size," the treasurer told reporters in Sydney on Monday, brandishing the report.
It covers recent economic figures showing strong growth, unemployment falling to 5.7 per cent and the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook pointing to a surplus in 2020/21.
It then attacks Labor for having no economic plan, Bill Shorten for jokingly saying that promises would be put on the "spend-o-meter", and for Labor frontbencher David Feeney forgetting Labor's position on the school kids' bonus.
And so it goes on, taking pot-shots at Labor's anti-business rejection of the government's planned tax cuts and the opposition's promised changes to negative gearing.
It also warns about the risk of a Labor-Greens minority government.
Oddly, it doesn't mention Deputy Liberal Leader Julie Bishop forgetting the detail of the government's superannuation changes or Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce linking beef exports to people smugglers.
Obviously they will come in his full campaign version, not.
Labor frontbencher Penny Wong said it took 25 pages before the coalition's achievements were listed on a single page.
It also mentioned Labor more than 100 times.
"Well, what a damning indictment on this government," Senator Wong told reporters in Canberra.
"After three years, the best they can do at this point in the campaign is to simply have an angry, shouty treasurer having a go at the Labor Party ... that's not really a second-term agenda."
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