In a fortnight where Labor passed major agenda items on its Future Made in Australia plan, expanded childcare benefits and electoral reform, as well as tough laws on hate speech and antisemitism, Peter Dutton and the Coalition failed to land a major blow.
In a highly charged social environment that Australia finds itself in, does the government want to run even the slimmest risk of an opponent making the case that holding an election on this date would be disrespectful to the Jewish community?.
Dutton didn’t even take a swing on Thursday; potentially the last sitting day, potentially his last day in the opposition leader’s chair.
Why did Labor MPs erupt in an explosion of laughter when veteran backbencher and scallywag Graham Perrett was booted from question time on Thursday, other than it was potentially his last in a long list of 94a ejections?
Earlier in the week, Dutton had tried to set an impossible bar for Albanese: arguing that securing world-leading exclusive exemptions from US tariffs for Australian steel and aluminium was the absolute minimum.
