Meanwhile, the actual real world impact of the Coalition continuing to circle the drain (and I know I have said this for a while now, but I do believe that the Coalition’s woes are irreversible and that it won’t make it out of this decade intact. There will be a centre right/right party, but it won’t be this one) is that the Albanese government can just skate along doing the very least.

Journalist Nick Feik makes that point in the latest 7AM podcast:

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

— Nick Feik (@nickfeik.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T20:44:20.630Z