It's the first parliamentary sitting day of Anthony Albanese's government, but in recent days there's also been attention on the dying hours of Scott Morrison's leadership. 
We now know that, as we were all casting our ballots, the government was scrambling to get news out about an asylum-seeker boat arrival. 
Today, the ABC's political editor, Andrew Probyn, on how and why the long-standing convention to keep 'on-water operations' secret was broken. 
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Andrew Probyn, ABC political editor