The Coalition has a much-needed chance to hold Labor to account – if they can stop talking about themselves

‘Labor has skated through most of its second term with little scrutiny from a Coalition which often seemed more focused on fighting each other than their political opponent across the chamber.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

With the Coalition finally reunited, the opposition now needs to get on with the work of holding the government to account and interrogating its decisions. It won’t get many better chances than this week.

While government decisions are put under the microscope at Senate estimates hearings, the week-long visit by the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog – clearly making some Labor members uneasy – will return attention to the Bondi terror attack. Meanwhile, the hangover from Tuesday’s interest rate hike lingers.