The Albanese Labor government sometimes thinks it is playing four-dimensional chess - an economy that is somehow flat-yet-overheating, a mad man in the White House, AI-angst and One Nation eating Labor's lunch in the suburbs.

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It is about get worse.

As political repositionings go, you won't see one more portentous than the shift of the new Greens Leader, David Shoebridge, from lofty principles to grounded, material concerns over groceries, energy bills, rents.

"Things have got harder under Labor," Shoebridge declared, lamenting living costs and a housing crisis for ordinary working people.

It was a retail jab to Albanese's solar plexus worthy of Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan or indeed Pauline Hanson.

The silky barrister turned NSW Upper House MLC turned NSW senator self-consciously turned up the wick on a dead-slow Labor government he says is beholden to corporate donors and tech billionaires.

"This is the moment to fill the vacuum left by Labor rushing to the right," a fired up Shoebridge told reporters after winning the vacated leadership by seven votes to four (on........

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