The Coalition’s chaos has become a self-writing political satire

The Albanese government's recent success in negotiating new environmental legislation with the Greens highlights Labor's professional skills in negotiating with the Senate crossbench and their political strategy in setting the policy agenda and making the Coalition redundant.

Labor is now the natural party of government and looks set to stay that way.

Labor's future political strategy is to further isolate the Coalition in both policy and political terms. They will be helped by the Coalition's lack of clear policy goals, confusion over its values, shaky leadership, amateurism, and the extraordinary self-centred, clownish behaviour and public antics of so many of its members.

With the Coalition expected to be in opposition for at least two terms their comeback will be hampered by continuing tension between the Liberal and National parties that can no longer be assuaged by special funding deals and ministerial posts.

Poor electoral prospects mean interest groups will have little reason to engage with shadow ministers who can deliver nothing or to make donations to obvious losers. As well as coping with reduced staffing – made worse by recent government cuts – and lacking Labor's organisational and community networks, it means the Coalition will have difficulty in recruiting staff of the calibre to match the professionalism and experience of the Albanese government.

So, send in the clowns and sit back and enjoy the farce