Greens' leader Adam Bandt has failed to see the opportunity. When not on active duty, the submarines can be wired into the electricity grid, providing fossil-fuel-free power to Australia.

"The Taliban promised 'an inclusive government'." Hello! What did he expect? Jacinda Ardern's government in turbans?

In a modern-day equivalent of a Roman triumph, dozens of Humvees and armoured fighting vehicles were driven along the main road. And overhead a captured Black Hawk helicopter flew, replete with a Taliban banner. All that were missing was the leader of the defeated enemy in cage.

The well upholstered Clive Palmer, Australia's answer to either Donald Trump, Donald Duck or Lord Screaming Sutch, depending on your mood, has appointed the also well upholstered and former Liberal but now current independent MP Craig Kelly as his party's parliamentary leader.

How will PM Jimmy Morrison react to the first boat to wash up on WA's north west coast? Will the WA premier lockdown the entire state just in case one of the refugees might have covid?

A 'Code Barnaby' is a form of extortion: I'll agree with your plan only if you give me what I want. Trouble is Barnaby doesn't know what he wants. He wants others to develop a plan. And then he will do an Oliver Twist, and ask for more.