Well, again not a lot.

The opposition feels like it has some meat on the 000 issue, which is understandable – it is a complete and utter failure, which has had devastating consequences for at least four families.

But it still can’t get a handle on the baser political instinct that exists within the Coalition’s senior leadership team, when it comes to how to handle these issues.

There are questions to be asked. Yesterday, Helen Haines showed us how that is done, asking about preparation to ensure there are no further outages during natural disasters.

The Coalition have valid questions over timing and when Anika Wells knew, as well as differences in the timeline presented to the parliament. To continue to tack on cheap politics about travel and to deliberately twist her answers to suggest a lack of empathy, is not just university grade politics, it speaks to the broader issues within the Coalition – that a thread of nastiness has seeped into how it carries out it’s politics, and that is one of the reasons it has been unable to arrest its fall off the cliff of relevancy.

I have been saying it for years – this is an issue that stretches back to how Howard changed the Liberal party and the impact that has had on the party leadership and direction as a whole. And now, so is the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly who wrote today:

The crisis transcends the Coalition parties – this is an intellectual, cultural and political crisis of the centre-right in Australia, 20 years in the making, with the nation since 2020 moving decisively to the left; witness Labor’s wins at the 2022 and 2025 elections and, more important, the collapse of a consistent, conviction Coalition policy stance.

The Liberals are increasingly divorced from the centres of cultural and opinion-forming power in Australia – the education and university sectors, the professional classes, much of the corporate sector, the climate change lobby and the renewable energy industries, the not-for-profit community organisations, the arts community, the public broadcasters, public sector employees, the trade unions and constituencies vital in shaping opinion – professional women and ethnic communities.

There was no sign today, or any day, that Sussan Ley knows how to handle this.