Peter Dutton on Thursday challenged Anthony Albanese to call an election immediately “to put Australians out of their misery and allow a competent Coalition government to get our country back on track”. This is classic opposition end-of-year bravado. As Albanese pointed out, it’d fire a political torpedo into the New Year holidays, hardly a winning tactic. The next federal election will be upon us soon enough.

Let’s forgo the Canberra fetish of speculating about the exact election date. The prime minister hasn’t actually decided it yet, so there is no more........

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