Sussan Ley is then asked:

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has written a letter to you wanting to crack down on leaks to the media. Now, this is to do with Andrew Hastie and Peter Dutton’s opinion of him. She says the Coalition is at risk of looking like a clown show. Is that how you see it?

Ley, who had to tell her colleagues that she doesn’t have access to the submissions to the internal party review into what happened at the last election, after Dutton’s submission blaming Hastie for the loss was leaked,

I’m not going to reflect on internal processes. We obviously have our discussions within our party room and you would expect them to focus on the contest of ideas*, which I welcome, and every single colleague is valued.

But who I value right now is Australians and the circumstances they find themselves in going backwards with declining living standards. We’re here and I’m very proud of my team. We’re backing aspirational Australians, Australians who want to get ahead, who get up in the morning, who take risks, who have a crack, who build this country and who deserve a government that supports them.

So we’re focused on lower taxes**, on aspiration, on holding the government to account for its failures with 000, its failure to answer questions on repatriating ISIS brides to this country***, and a host of other things**** that really there is a sense of disappointment***** from Australians in Anthony Albanese right now.

*’Contest of ideas’ is a very strange way of describing complaining about leaks, pointing the finger at different colleagues, and pointing out the dysfunction within the party room.

**The Opposition went to the last election with a plan to raise taxes. After the stage three tax cut changes, Ley’s immediate response was to repeal them (which would have raised taxes for all but the 10%).

***The Opposition has not asked any questions on this in question time all week, despite Michaelia Cash and others trying to make it happen, so take this as a sign Ley is capitulating.

****I would think the opposition leader could come up with more than two examples of how the government is failing?

*****Opinion polls have Anthony Albanese enjoying higher levels of approval.