I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, ‘Will he really go to a double dissolution?’ Now to tell you the truth I can’t really say in all this excitement. But being this is a Carbon Tax, the most lethal tax in Australia and it tends to blow political leaders clean out of the water, you’ve gotta ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, Bill?

Apologies to Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan for the above flight of fancy, but the image of the hapless new leader of the Opposition already lying bruised and bloodied in a Canberra forecourt with...