The compilers of this column are forever grateful to the steady output of “news” from Sky LNP News for the laughs it provides, often many times a day.

So they thought they’d share just some of these gems that appeared online during and after the Dunkley by-election last weekend.

And the one that gave them the best chuckle was from Jane “People are annoyed that they’re back at the polls” Hume this time last week, who spotted the red-hot anger aimed at Labor down in Dunkley as the byelection campaign neared its end.

In her SKY LNP News piece, Hume put down this white-hot anger to voters criticising the Albanese government’s failure to address falling disposable incomes.

This “focusing on themselves” jibe apparently referred to Labor and its candidate banging on about Labor’s changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts that gave all workers in Dunkley an income tax cut and not just wealthy people.

How utterly unfair! Especially when Dutton and Co. much preferred to bang on about national security and boats and the good folk of Dunkley falling victim to rapists, muderers and paedophiles, and of course possible laws that could make the Toyota Monstatruck 48,000 4×12 unaffordable!

So, how did Hume’s powers of observation on the hustings turn out on the night? Labor’s primary vote actually went up by about 1 per cent and the increase in the Liberals’ primary vote was largely because One Nation and United Australia Party did not field candidates.

The two-party preferred swing of around 3.7 per cent was about the average change in such a byelection so that sure was some “red hot anger” on show there, Senator Hume.

And then we had this from Peta Credlin after the vote count was largely done and dusted.

Credlin, always good for a giggle if not a few outright gaffaws, is the political analyst and strategist who made Tony Abbott what he is today – a laughing stock of an ex-PM. Yep, only Rubert and Lauchlan Murdoch would think she has anything to offer political discourse in this country.

Like many in the actual mainstream mediocre, Credlin saw many lessons to be learnt only by Albanese and his government from the by-election result.

One-eyed Credlin completely ignored the fact that the Liberals’ primary vote was just a tad over 39 per cent. In a by-election in a government seat, mind! At a general election, the LNP are not going to win anything from that low primary base.

The constant spewing forth of these columns often push the opinions of various SKY LNP News hosts themselves, such as Paul Murray and Rowan Dean. If not them, some shadowy Institute of Public Affairs figure or someone from another right-wing think tank.

Or shadow ministers of the calibre of Michael Sukkar who believes Australians are “very disappointed” in the first twenty months of this Labor government.

Mr Sukkar acknowledged how Australians are “hurting” with cost-of-living pressures.

“I think they’re concerned at a number of broken promises,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia.

“Including on reducing energy prices by $275.”

By 2025 mind, but Sukkar and Co. have totally ignored that these past two years.

And this separate SKY LNP News foray by Sukkar into stating the bleeding obvious…

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar says to be a party of government you have to “appeal to people across the board”.

“That’s what we’ve successfully done in the past,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News Australia.

“I’m hopeful and confident we can do that again.”

A political coalition that doesn’t want to win the next federal election and is indeed not hopeful or confident of doing that would indeed be news, but real news is of no real interest to SKY LNP News.

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