A fair bit of political capital has been torched after this column revealed that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton jetted into Sydney for a party fundraiser at the mansion of Justin Hemmes as then Cyclone Alfred bore down on his home state. Much of it was helped along by frothing Labor MPs. Reckon they knew the whole time the prime minister held his own political fundraiser on the same day?

Now come details of Anthony Albanese’s party fundraiser that was hosted on the afternoon of March 4 – the same time as Dutton’s interstate dash – when fearful residents of Queensland and northern NSW were preparing for the worst.