FROM A JET GOING SOMEWHERE OVERSEAS

THE GRINDING SOUND of knives being sharpened is beginning to drift through the corridors of power in Canberra.

“It’s the quiet that gives the game away,” says political analyst Bruce Bluey. “Prime Ministers never need fear noise from their more ambitious colleagues, it’s the silence that’s damning. And Albo’s Labor Party has virtually nothing to say about him. Zip. That’s a sure sign the knives are being prepared. And the cover is their furious criticism the Opposition as if it were the Government. Albo’s refusal to back them is the tell that he knows what’s happening.

“Beware the Ides of March, Prime Minister.”