Coalition enters ‘death-rattle mode’

By contrast, the sense that the government is now in full death-rattle mode is more of a consensus opinion, to the extent that there was a widespread view as MPs and senators went home on Thursday and Friday that — as was canvassed in this space a few weeks ago — it was just not a viable option for the government to come back and sit out a period until a May election.

via Scott Morrison has brought out the ‘nuclear option’ and it doesn’t bode well – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)