Federal election 2016: Does Australia even need a government?

By Peter Hartcher
Updated July 4 2016 - 5:41pm, first published 5:33pm

The cry has gone up. A former minister in the Turnbull government, Jamie Briggs, who lost his seat on Saturday, says that "my fear is the country is ungovernable". The chief executive of Harvey Norman, Gerry Harvey, used the same word, "ungovernable".