“Turnbull. Pathetic.”

This brief, two-word tweet was not a summation of the recent federal election campaign by a Liberal-National member of parliament from Queensland. It was Anthony Albanese’s reaction to the Prime Minister’s captain’s call not to support Kevin Rudd’s candidacy for the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Bill Shorten echoed these sentiments: “Disappointed to once again see Mr Turnbull put his own interests ahead of our nation’s.”