Does it get any better than this for Anthony Albanese? Despite six months of drift and indecision and no achievements of note by his government, his opponents are continuing to rip themselves apart, in what is yet another repeat of the ritual Coalition brawl over climate policy that has helped churn out millions of words of newspaper copy since 2009.
The only difference between this instance and previous iterations is that some party moderates are saying that this time they really really might do something other than roll over to the Nationals and their demand to abandon the climate policy of Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison, which was a retreat from the climate policy of Tony Abbott, which was a retreat from the climate policy of Malcolm Turnbull, which was a retreat from the climate policy of John Howard.