This is the last reshuffle before the election, we promise. No more resignations, no more scandals, no more inter-party warfare. This is the team. Well, Malcolm Turnbull hopes so.

The start to the parliamentary year has been nothing less than a complete and utter shambles for the Government. It was bad enough that a bumpy summer gap had left the Prime Minister minus two ministers, Jamie Briggs and Mal Brough, but then Stuart Robert popped up.