A senior federal Labor Party figure has avoided commenting in detail on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s latest unforced error after he twice apologised for seemingly joking about Tourette’s syndrome in question time.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek (main picture) was questioned by reporters who found her in a Parliament House corridor seemingly rehearsing a walk between her office and the PM’s suite while quietly muttering “a good government has lost its way”.

Ms Plibersek then let fly with a string of obscenities which she quickly declared were “off the record” before saying “whoever the Labor Party chooses as PM” had her support then adding that she had no further comment to make on the incident before walking away at high speed.

She also denied undergoing plastic surgery to make her nose somewhat pointier and also insisted that her hair had always been “somewhat reddish”.

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Federal Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, has faced his party room this morning for the first time since sabotaging what was meant to be a bipartisan expression of national condolence marking the deadly 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel and the loss of life in the subsequent and ongoing war in Gaza.

Sources within the Liberal Party meeting at Parliament House in Canberra said every single Opposition MP lined up to described Mr Dutton’s tactics as “negative and divisive”, “unnecessarily belligerent”, “pandering to anti-Palestinian fears”, and “straight from the US Republicans’ hard-right playbook”.

Others said Mr Dutton’s tactics had deliberately diverted attention from the genocidal assaults by the Israeli Government and its defence forces on innocent Palestinians.

The meeting spent several hours hearing such comments from MPs before Mr Dutton was given a chance to respond.

“Thanks. That means a lot to me,” he said as applause and cheers broke out and he was carried shoulder high around the room by several MPs.

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Voters in the Australian Capital Territory set records yesterday on the first day of pre-poll voting for the Saturday 19 October election.

A spokesperson for the Canberra Shire Council said 13 votes had been cast on Tuesday, up from eight on the first day of early voting in 2020.

“This shows the depth of engagement among voters right across the shire who have been clearly activated by the big issues, such as ….. ahhh…. ummmm. Let me get back to you on that one,” the spokesperson said.

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