Right now Shorten is far away from the flying muck in Canberra, working his way around a receptive Queensland, the very state that will cast the alibi aside with a sneer ... Dutton is burnt toast already.
But hey, conservatives in denial are stuck in a time wasting warp of hubristic comments about the recently PM deposed PM and making excuses for the absence of new policy and any direction approaching two weeks on.
The Libs have given Shorten a flying head start and a few of them are now manning the hurdles to give him a leg up.
