Drive the agenda

At the same time the Government could overcome investor uncertainty about future energy policy by offering new investors in power generation a contractual 'no-carbon-price' guarantee. The Government could also lower the price of certificates offered under its rooftop solar subsidy scheme, which would provide households without solar panels additional relief from high electricity prices.

On government spending, the Morrison Government should announce a mini-budget before the end of the year, targeting the areas of spending that can be cut without the need for legislation to pass the Senate. In essence, this means slashing spending on public servants in Canberra.

A range of bodies could be defunded including research bodies like the CSIRO, cultural bodies like the Arts Council, and corporate welfare bodies like Austrade. Virtue-signalling bureaucracies such as the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and affirmative action bodies like Indigenous Business Australia could go too.

Public service wages, and foreign aid other than for short-term disaster relief, could also be cut without the need for Senate approval.

The howling protests from people who ordinary Australians loathe, like Canberra public servants and the virtue-signalling kumbaya brigade, would play right into the hands of the Coalition.

Turning the Coalition around after almost four years of being Labor-lite might be harder than turning around the Tampa, but it's their only hope.