Regardless of who said or emailed what to whom, libertarian Senator David Leyonhjelm’s Adler shotgun blasted a big hole through Coalition ranks last week. ‘Adlergate’ highlighted the Coalition will lose the next election to Bill Shorten and Labor if nothing changes in Malcolm Turnbull’s and his government’s performance. Indeed, a Liberal MP said afterwards that one of the Coalition’s tasks this term is to prepare to hold a Shorten government to account if the next election is lost: an extraordinary thing to say given we voted less than four months ago.