The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, had a very fine moment in the House of Representatives on Thursday, mourning two police officers slain in the line of duty. He struggled to contain his emotions as he visualised their final, terrible, minutes on a property in rural Queensland. His tribute was sincere, and moving.
Less fine, sadly, was the naked politicking on show over energy price relief, which was the primary reason MPs returned to Canberra out of session. Dutton elected to vote in favour of higher power prices on Thursday because that aligns with a strategic choice he made to resist Labor’s policy prescriptions.
