Is this the worst start to a first term of an Australian government ever? I think so. Here's why.
1. Spend your whole time in opposition harping on about a broken promise by your opponent, and the sneakily attempt to break one yourself in the first three months of office, only to be forced to backflip on your backflip. Furthermore, this comes after promising that there would be 'no surpises' in government.
2. Spend your whole time in opposition banging on about debt and how the Labor is in bed with the Greens, and then do a deal with the Greens to remove the debt ceiling, allowing you to raise debt even further.
3. Talking about how your foreign policy would be aligned to Jakarta and not Geneva, and then make a a diplomatic crisis with Indonesia worse through clumsy diplomacy.
4. Convince voters you will turn back the boats, and then get rejected by Indonesia when you try to do so.
5. Launch a military operation to stop people getting to Australia by boat, only to have a boat reach Christmas Island undetected by Australian authorities. Then claim that the ocean is big and the boat is small. And the boats are still coming.
6. Claim Australia is open for business, and then reject a takeover offer by a foreign firm.
This government is lurching from screw up to screw up. If it keeps up at this rate we'll have a Turnbull government before the next election.
