I’ve been thinking about empathy lately.

You know, empathy. That capacity to put yourself in someone else’s shows and wonder how they can possibly walk with heels that high.

I’ve decided that there’s a distinct lack of empathy from some politicians and it’s this lack from the Coalition that’s one of the possible reasons why – in spite of all the criticism they’ve copped – that Labor are still in front in most polls.

Yes, I know that you’ve probably read many articles about how they’re slipping in the polls and, if I were a political adviser, I’d be suggesting that they do something to try and arrest the slide. I mean, they can’t rely on media outlets giving them a boost by interviewing members of the Coalition front bench. When people start to wonder why they voted Labor up pops Peter Dutton/Angus Taylor/Sussan Ley/Jane Hume and most people go: “Ah, now I remember!”

Of course, if you were one of the few people who managed to sit through the first episode of “Nemesis”, you’d have been reminded about how Abbott lost 30 opinion polls before being replaced by Turnbull. You’d have also been reminded that when a spill was first called by Abbott, nobody stood against him so his opponent was an “empty chair”. Now, I don’t want to make it sound like the chair was unimpressive in its attempt to lead the Liberal Party, but I take the fact that it received over thirty votes to be more a reflection on how the party felt about Credlin’s leadership than anything that the chair did.

When the time came for Turnbull, he managed to turn that around and win a few polls before people realised that he had managed to convince certain factions that he wouldn’t be doing the sort of things that Tony did. In fact, he’d be happy just having the title PM and an office window where he could stare out and wonder whether this is how dogs chasing cars feel if they ever catch one. It didn’t take long before Turnbull had the government behind in the........

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