The party room meetings are coming to a close. The Coalition and the Greens have sent out the alert that their post-meeting briefings are ago. Caucus will soon follow.

These are off-the-record briefings of the meeting minutes, in a tradition that goes back to John Curtin giving off-the-record briefings about what Australia was doing during World War II. None of it is attributed and journalists have to do the work of finding out who said what and whether there was more not reported in the briefing, but it is always amusing to me when MPs say they don’t discuss party room, because they literally brief the media on it.