Hello and welcome back to the parliament sitting and The Point Live.

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s the busiest day of the sitting. Not just in terms of parliament business, but also in making any points that you need air for, or to start laying the ground work for Thursday shenanigans.

This week is a bit fraught for the Coalition as they have a million different fires burning within their party room, which makes the message kinda a bit confused. It has been unable to land a blow on the Labor party, despite Anthony Albanese’s absence, because it can’t find a theme which doesn’t just get turned back on it.

It started the week with the CFMEU – which doesn’t exactly win hearts and minds not already engaged in ideological battles. Yesterday, it was the potential closure of the Tomago smelter, which is stronger ground, but not how the Coalition handled it – because it is ham strung by its own lack of policies, it could only attack Labor on renewables, which is very easily batted away.

And then there is the back bencher meeting to talk climate and net zero this Friday, which is not the end off the Coalition’s woes, but it will give it more to break apart on. The choice (for the party, none of this matters in terms of the nation’s policies) is scrap net zero and give up on ever winning government (which would also lead to the end of the party) or keep it and have a bunch of MPs leave (which will also lead to the end of the party).

Good times, well done, fantastic work.

Meanwhile, it is stuck in culture wars, with Sussan Ley yesterday digging deep into the bowels of far-right social media (and Sky After Dark, also known as SAD) for a short speech on how tasteless/offensive it was that Albanese wore a Joy Division t-shirt (the name’s origins are from the 1950s book, House of Dolls, which was about women kept as sexual slaves by the Nazis, who referred to them as the ‘Joy divisions’. It was an attempt to remind people of some of their lesser known, but still horrifying crimes).

This is only an issue because it was amplified by the media, otherwise most people would have no idea it happened. (I envy them). Ley’s office emailed the speech around the press gallery to ensure it received notice. As is pointed out in the AFR many of the outlets now clutching their pearls had made light hearted jokes of the t-shirt when the image was first taken – it took five days for Ley and her office to pick up on the far right conspiracy brewing on social media over the shirt and Albanese’s reason for wearing it, which was amplified by SAD and then questioned in the Oz and then raised by Ley in parliament.

So this is where we start today. The dumbest of timelines.

You’ll also hear from speakers and panels at the Revenue Summit, hosted by the Australia Institute, which will discuss new ideas of raising revenue and solving some of our big issues in housing, tax reform and inequality.

You’ve got me, Amy Remeikis for most of the day, with Mike Bowers of the New Daily lending us his lens to take you into the parliament.

It is at least a three coffee morning. And maybe a banana-caramel Haighs chocolate frog (a friend gave me two yesterday and holy moly – I have now tasted happiness)

Ready? Let’s get into it.