The first of the senate estimates hearings are about to get underway. The Coalition will be focusing on some of its ‘niche’ topics as its priority. What does that include? Australian citizens returning to Australia under strict conditions, because that is how Australian citizenship works under the law (but it sounds a lot more scary when you label it ‘ISIS brides’), whether the National Climate Risk Assessment has been exaggerated (if anything it’s under-estimating the urgency, but since when did facts bother the Coalition when it comes to climate) and ‘controversial’ statements from within the Australian Human Rights Commission (given the definition of controversial according to the Coalition, one assumes it includes comments like – January 26 as Australia Day is a day of mourning for Indigenous Australians and that celebrating it can compound racism – because in 2025, facts are allegedly, ‘controversial’)