When Australia goes to the polls sometime and the Coalition is likely defeated, as the 50 straight Newspoll losses would suggest, the Morrison government will have chosen electoral oblivion over making simple policy changes that may well have turned around their fortunes.

Despite thre prime ministers in less than four years, multiple damaging gaffes by senior ministers and an exodus of strong ministerial talent – Julie Bishop, Christopher Pyne and Kelly O’Dwyer – the alternative vision provided by the Labor Party is hardly setting the nation afire e.