First, there's smoke at Parliament House on Thursday morning. You know that old saying, where there's smoke, there's fire.

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Was it the bin fire of the Coalition, now torn asunder? Actually, no, probably an electrical fault. But there are more faults than that on the conservative side of politics.

Let me point out to you - although you are sensible enough to have figured this out for yourself - that the Coalition decided to have this bit of family hysteria on the National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bondi massacre. They are a bunch of embarrassing tossers with no judgement. Swear to God, Ron Boswell is rolling in his grave. Poor bloke only died on January 5 and already, and again, the Nationals are upheaving everything Boswell knew and built.

Just as the Prime Minister was feeling the heat from his handling of the hate speech laws, the Coalition has come tumbling down. It is so strange to me that any political party would willingly hand the win to its opposition. And that's what's happened with the Liberal Party and the National Party.

A brief summary: the Nationals leader David Littleproud oversaw a Coalition split after a late Wednesday night mass exodus from the opposition front bench. Littleproud and eight members of his party still on Opposition Leader Sussan Ley's frontbench handed in their resignations after a crisis meeting on Wednesday night. Why the crisis meeting when most of us are still in that weird headspace we occupy between December 24 and January 26?

Well, Bridget McKenzie, Ross Cadell and Susan McDonald could not - did not want to - accept the idea of shadow cabinet solidarity. They voted against Labor's hate speech bill, the very one which the Liberals helped pass on Tuesday night. Naturally they had to go from shadow cabinet. Annoying Matt Canavan also........

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