At the prospect of ending a decade of climate bollocks, the PM donned a dusty Abbott onesie and zipped up | Katharine Murphy

Hmm, yes, well. Couple of things.

Folks, it is time to strap in, because when it comes weaponisation and outright lying, over the next few months, we are going to breach mach 3.

During the same question time where Abbott-onesie Morrison was dusting off the greatest hits of the climate wars, Peter Dutton, in hot pursuit of some version of a khaki election, was also back to the future on national security.

The times really are very serious, both domestically, and geopolitically.

Australia sits in a dangerous region where escalating militarisation narrows the scope for transactional pragmatism between neighbours with different values and political systems. Foreign interference is a serious problem imperilling democracies. All democratic institutions are vulnerable.

This is the reality we face.

I suspect Dutton is too blunt an instrument to appreciate irony, but there is a fundamental irony about a defence minister hyperventilating about risk when that very same defence minister demonstrates a measurable appetite for partisan recklessness.