Anthony Albanese has been eager to project a sense of stability throughout Labor's first term. The prime minister is pitching his first cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, more than two years into the term, as one prompted by retirements and not performance.
But Labor's stable frontbench masks a razor slim majority following its lowest primary vote in roughly a century.
As voters gradually abandon the major parties, is Australia heading towards an era of minority government as the norm?
Capital Brief spent last week in two Melbourne seats — Wills and Kooyong — which may hold answers to that question but for very different reasons.
