Returning to question time for a moment, let’s just look at what we have learned:

The Coalition thinks that people with more than $3 million in super are the people most in need. They asked more question on this issue than any other.

After an election where the Coalition were largely wiped out and punished for not focusing on issues that Australians were concerned with, it is surprising that this is the issue they want to focus on.

They could have focused on:

• People with mortgages.
• Renters.
• Families with kids in childcare.

Instead, they want to focus on the government wanting to reduce (but not get rid of completely) the tax concession going to wealthy people with massive super balances. This is the issue that the Coalition wants to highlight.

It’s hard to see them fighting their way back to relevance with this strategy.

Two enormous issues were largely (though not completely) ignored.

The biggest issue during the election campaign was housing but it didn’t get much of a look in. And when it did, the Minister for Housing largely said that it was about building more houses, which is a state issue.

Childcare is the other big issue and is causing a lot of anxiety among parents. It got one question, and it was good to see that this looks like an issue that will have the full support of the whole parliament. But wouldn’t it have been great if question time was used to tease out what the government was going to do on this and how they thought it was going to fix the problem.