It's certainly long overdue and, with some pundits already tipping a Federal poll before the end of 2018, very necessary for the Turnbull Government's political survival.

While it would be unfair to say the Coalition has floundered hopelessly since being returned by the skin of its teeth in July, 2016, it is possible to argue its achievements have been less than stellar.

This was, in no small part, due to the distraction created by the bungling of the marriage equality debate, the section 44 debacle and, more recently, the Joyce affair.

While both the Government and the Opposition have lost skin over the past 18 months, the real losers have been the Australian people.

Job creation, the only front on which the Turnbull Government seems to have made notable progress, is as much a product of the worldwide economic recovery as it is of anything that has been done in Australia.

The fact it has been occurring in spite of the allegedly punitive local company tax rate, which Mr Turnbull wants to slash from a nominal 35 per cent to 25 per cent, raises questions about the wisdom of this policy.

The Coalition is determined to press ahead with a free kick for the big end of town even though it can't, or won't, tell wage and salary earners how this will help them.

Now Mr Joyce is off the agenda, the anti-marriage equality push have been sent packing and we're running out of MPs to refer to the High Court this needs to be addressed.

Other matters worthy of the Government's attention include the inability of many people to absorb energy price increases, the housing affordability crisis and the fact we have been living with a wage freeze in all but name for years.

A growing number of Australians feel they have taken little or nothing away from the decades of economic growth created by a tsunami of industrial, business and social reforms dating back to the time of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

While Mr Joyce's replacement, Michael McCormack presents well he has baggage of his own.

In addition to the homophobic column he penned while the editor of the Wagga Daily Advertiser in 1993, Mr McCormack's views on broadband and the NBN are also a worry.

During his 2010 election campaign he said he had not met many people "who rated national broadband as something they could not live without".

That, given the NBN has the capacity to break down the tyranny of distance in the bush in a way not seen since the rail revolution of the 19th century, is counterintuitive.

It is to be hoped, for the sake of the Government and the nation, his current views are more reflective of the 21st century than the 19th.