The challenge for the opposition has never been harder: here's why

Meanwhile, those other groups arranged against Labor - the minor parties, some think tanks, US-inspired forums, and various interest groups, aren't in the game.

They snap intermittently from the sidelines on their pet topics, compete against each other, and talk only to their adherents and thus fail to get their messages heard and understood in the wider community, let alone actioned.

The Liberals and Nationals remain the only real alternative to Labor, but given their current, depleted, fragmented and confused state, they will be unable to respond unless they reconfigure themselves organisationally, ideologically, and gain the necessary political skills to present their case.

The political environment has fundamentally changed and so has Australia. The challenge for all the non-Labor forces, but especially the Coalition, is how to fit into this new landscape.

It's a big task. They need to distinguish themselves from Labor politically while developing policies that address the nation's problems more effectively than Albanese's, while garnering voter support to project them back into office. And they need to bring together the disparate forces on their side of politics.

Australia is now more captured by the electoral cycle and short-term policies, outdated ideologies, narrow vested interest groups, and as good money goes after bad policy and projects, a total disregard of efficiency with resulting rising debt, budget deficits and declining productivity.

Labor's dominance is clear and how is it ever going to be undone and by whom remains the challenge.