No contest
The Coalition is in disarray and unable to scrutinise. It's a problem for anyone who believes governments in a Westminster system must be made to justify themselves.
Watching Question Time this week, it was hard to escape the creeping sense that the real threat to good governance in Australia isn’t the government itself. It’s the opposition.
Anthony Albanese is no policy powerhouse, but in the last term he was at least kept on his toes by a (seemingly) competitive opposition that forced him to engage with thorny issues.
Now, there’s barely a pretence of scrutiny.
Sussan Ley may have inherited the Liberal leadership with her eyes wide open, but not even she could have foreseen how much of a shambles the Nationals would become.
As if Nationals leader David Littleproud temporarily refusing to sign a Coalition agreement weren’t enough.
