Can someone please just say out loud that the Liberal Party is no longer fit to govern?

Examining the weird dual narrative helping Peter Dutton challenge Anthony Albanese

And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

—Robert Zimmerman

It’s a bit early to be writing Labor off as a one-term government—and I’m not doing that—but the No campaign, and result of the Voice referendum, make it obvious how the next election will be conducted, and it is becoming clearer the risk the country faces.

It’s so obvious that even the mainstream media are noticing, though, as ever, they are seeing it through a distorted lens.

The thing is, there is this weird dual narrative developing which, in the way of these things, is playing to the favour of a conservative fightback.

Let me try and spell it out.

On the one hand, there is a view that says Labor can’t afford to do anything too “radical” for fear of scaring moderate voters (whoever they are). At the same time there is another narrative that warns that Dutton’s radical lunge to the right is exactly what is most likely to get him back into contention.

Talk about heads I win tails yo…