Ugh. It truly doesn’t take much to just plunge you right back there, does it.

So what did we learn?

The opposition seems to have learnt one lesson this year following the aged care home packages and wisely have decided to keep the focus on domestic issues. That is a smart strategy – but for it to work, it needs to have a goal. With the home care packages, the goal was to force the government to release more packages, earlier.

With the 000 failure, it is unclear what it thinks the goal is, rather than just highlight that it happened. The aged care focus worked, because the crossbench and Greens were also on board – and they kept it grounded in policy reality, with eyes remaining on the prize of forcing the government to change its own legislation or risk defeat in the senate.

With 000, Helen Haines had a good point about what is being done in the future to stop the risk of a failure during bushfire season, but the opposition appears to have run out of steam on what exactly it wants done.

Also worth noting, given how big a deal Michaelia Cash and others in the right/hawkish faction have been trying to make the ‘Australians return to Australia from Syria’ issue (which the Coalition, with an assist from NewsCorp is calling ‘ISIS brides) is the complete absence of the issue from House question time – one of the few areas Ley has influence over.