The Things that Matter.

Guess what? Morrison mistaking the JobKeeper rate of $46 a day for $46 a week doesn't matter. Neither do his weird references to Mr Speaker in Press Conferences this week. But what else doesn't matter? Albanese forgetting the unemployment rate; a number that is at best half true.

But, because the media establishment decided that the latter mattered, the first also matters. And we are stuck in a whirlpool of irrelevance.

We are also in a position where the Leader of the Opposition is being held to a higher standard than the Prime Minister. This should not happen. If they are not to be held to the same account, than it is the Prime Minister, especially one that has been caught in scandals for his entire Prime Ministership, that needs to be questioned more deeply than the alternative.

If this is not the case, the media risks becoming little more than vassals and servants of the Government. And in that situation it's very hard to have a functioning democracy.

But of course, holding a obfuscating and shameless Government to any sort of account is difficult. So, many journalists have decided it's either beyond their skills or it's not their job. Some of these journalists are being called out on twitter and when they react extremely defensively they are quickly defended by other members of their establishment. And while bullying is never acceptable, as journalists are all that lies between us and an Authoritarian takeover, you can understand why people are getting a little angry at a media that looks to be subservient and lazy.

The people deserve better than this. But if the media can, over the next five weeks, work out that gaffes are not news and that the Prime Minister is not their boss, then we might just be able to have a fair election.

Wouldn't that be a dream?