The bank-up of bills on the government’s to-do list this week gives Anthony Albanese a ready target for his condemnation of “the Noalition”. He sounds most infuriated when the Liberals and Nationals form an “unholy alliance” with the Greens in the Senate.

But the prime minister still has to manage the increasing perception that it’s the Labor government that is drifting, unable to deliver on its ambitions or explain its achievements.