Malcolm Turnbull has his work cut out for him if he wants another rare moment of unity

As the sense of moment faded from the corridors of Parliament House on Wednesday, after that rare moment of bipartisanship evaporated after the debate on race, a group of MPs sat together and considered what a difference a couple of words could make. At one level, Senator Anning's speech appeared to have perversely created a rare moment of leadership in Canberra: both Shorten and Turnbull emerged, quickly and unambiguously to condemn the discriminatory messages in the new Senator's speech, and to reaffirm a commitment to non-discriminatory immigration. The rest of the Parliament firmly rejecting this idea is not going to make it go away, particularly in the febrile and crucial electorates up and down the Queensland coast, even if there are dark threats that the campaign will rebound on Senator Anning's party "leader" Bob Katter, in the form of redirected Labor preferences and union campaign donations. Ground shifting beneath Turnbull's feet On Tuesday, the Prime Minister scored a victory in the party room with an endorsement for the National Energy Guarantee. These new proposals — based on advice from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and to be unveiled for next Tuesday's Coalition party room meeting — are supposed to stop any Coalition waiverers on the National Energy Guarantee from crossing the floor to block it on the back of criticisms the NEG itself does not do enough to address prices.