Why is Peter Dutton ignoring all the lessons that got Anthony Albanese into the Lodge? | Katharine Murphy

But when the second Covid-19 wave hit, triggering fresh lockdowns and border closures, comity fractured. The Morrison government picked fights with Daniel Andrews and took potshots at Mark McGowan and Annastacia Palaszczuk.

When Albanese stood at much the same political crossroads Dutton is standing at now, his call was: Big Opposition will kill us.

To get back into majority government, Dutton has to execute a capital R reset. He has to court the cohorts that abandoned the Liberals in May: urban professionals, and women. Common sense says men and women in the labour market want jobs and opportunity, and would view the looming summit as entirely anodyne at worst, and possibly even helpful.