Australia news live: Andrew Laming apologises over accusations of online harassment, flood cleanup under way

We have a government that has been in office for eight long years, and that’s unravelled before our eyes. A prime minister who keeps searching for the reset button, but on Tuesday we saw the abuse as a result of just getting asked a question in a press conference in Parliament and last night, in the interview with Tracy Grimshaw, what we saw was more dissembling, more deferral, more talk about inquiries. No action. No action.

I mean, sometimes the Prime Minister, it seems to me, is asking himself if only I was in a position to do something about the challenges that are being confronted. And, over coming days, what we will see is a reshuffle.

Well, shuffling the deck will not change the bad hand that this government is dealing Australians. Shuffling the deck will not change that bad hand