Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Brett Worthington gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.

The first rule of politics is: When your opponent is tearing itself apart, sit back and enjoy the show.

As the Coalition continued to eat itself alive with a fresh round of messy infighting this week, Labor happily sat back feasting on popcorn, thankful that its own woes were taking a back seat.

It's been a well-publicised bruising couple of weeks for Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, something she hoped would be behind her after she reshuffled her frontbench on Sunday.

But the mere mention of emissions targets is enough to trigger a volcanic eruption from Mt Coalition. Loading...

The warnings started ringing almost as soon as the government rele

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