Running alongside the gladiatorial spectacle of two men locked in verbal combat across Australia [Scomo and Albo] is another, only slightly less competitive show – Australian Fashion Week. This year it has proclaimed its allegiance to diversity, difference, and – as always – dollars. 

Colours, not just in the burnished skin tones of the models strutting their stuff, have never been more important, so let’s consider the so-called ‘Teals’ – those women running in Coalition seats under a pleasing blue-green shade.