If the polls are correct, some time in the next few months Labor’s Anthony Albanese will be unpacking at the Lodge. This is probably bad news for corporate advisers like David Gazard and Scott Briggs, who’ve long been able to count a close personal friendship with Scott Morrison among their many accomplishments.

But one side’s loss is another’s gain. Attempting to capitalise on the expected election result is Mark Brandon-Baker’s TG Public Affairs, which has nabbed Albo’s ex-chief of staff Michael Choueifate to join as one of the firm’s principals (the others are ex-Nationals adviser Paul Chamberlin, ex-diplomat and defence specialist John Brenton and ex-Morrison policy director Brendan Tegg).