The trend has become well and truly set. Now Angus has applied his intellect to the problem of disappearing Liberal voters.

Sooty's job now, apart from presiding over the parliamentary Man-Coal Love Association, is to stop the bleeding of yokels, back blocks kulaks, ring-barkers and boondockers to One Nation.

Andrew Hastie will be gunning for Squizzy in short order.

The 48th Parliament has now commenced with just a smear of 34 Lib/LNP MPs. The smoking ruins of the tattered "natural party of government".

How is it that der Gruppenfritter is closing the gap in the preferred PM poll, which stands at 44:41?

Who are the notable weirdos in Trump world with whom we can compare our own?

They don't belong in Opposition. They belong in the discards pile of too-offensive pub trivia questions.

They may have dropped the constant, asinine, look-at-moi dress-ups of the moronic galoot but they've not abandoned the concept entirely.

The L/NP machine is so invested in the grift, so committed to quackery and deceit that they won't change.

It will be interesting to watch how the Tories repackage their unsellable bunko brand as being a credible alternative government.

It is not entirely clear to me when Smirko Morrison's re-election campaign jumped the shark....when did it all start to go wrong for Smirko?

Watching the Tories squirm and panic was a highlight to an otherwise shitty year.