After 2016, one of the most lacklustre, uneventful and stagnant years in Australian political history, there is every reason to suspect, and to hope, that 2017 will be a very different kettle of fish. Where this last year was essentially all about one thing only – keeping Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop in their ill-gotten jobs – this coming year the chooks are destined to come home to roost.