The resumption of Parliament will be overshadowed by a fresh border battle between Canberra and some of the states.

“If NSW and the NT want to open up to other countries, there is now an issue as to how to manage those people coming from other countries border-hopping,” Mr McGowan said.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said 55 people on the New Zealand flight had given a Victorian address on their incoming passenger card, with only 23 of them located.
Victoria has not closed its borders to interstate arrivals but Mr Andrews has threatened to do so and has written to Scott Morrison to ask New Zealand travellers be barred from catching onwards flights to Victoria.
“I’m not looking for a quarrel on this. I just want it fixed,” Mr Andrews said.
“We have found ourselves part of [the bubble] without having agreed to it.”
On Sunday night it emerged five people had travelled onto Tasmania, which has its borders closed.
Under the Trans-Tasman travel arrangements, people who had been in New Zealand can enter NSW and the Northern Territory without undergoing two weeks of mandatory hotel quarantining as other overseas arrivals.
The Morrison government said passengers were told upon arrival in Australia to check entry requirements for other states, including quarantine rules.
“The travel bubble is working exactly as it was outlined at multiple meetings of the expert medical panel over the past fortnight where the [Chief Health Officer] from WA was in attendance,” a government spokesman said.
“Airlines must provide passenger records to state authorities if requested for contact tracing.”
Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge said the risk of people from New Zealand bringing the virus into Australia was very low.
“Its indeed why they are being treated like any other Australian or visa holder in NSW once they had arrived, which means that they can travel to other destinations if those jurisdictions and those other destinations allow them to do so,” he said.
The flare up over borders comes as the government seeks to have one of its budget centrepieces, the hiring credit for young workers, pass through the House of Representatives this week.
Voters appear to be responding favourably towards the federal budget and backing Mr Morrison’s handling of the pandemic, with new polling showing the government is heading for a landslide victory in two key marginal seats.
The poll, conducted by former Labor official Kos Samaras and his firm Redbridge, shows the government would comfortably win the marginal NSW seats of Macquarie in western Sydney and Dobell on the Central Coast with about a 9 per cent swing against Labor, whose vote has collapsed. The Liberals would hold both seats with a two-party preferred vote of 60 per cent.
The working class have been gradually walking away from Federal Labor and on occasions parking their vote with minor parties, but now they are starting to align their values with Scott Morrison,” Mr Samaras said.
“The working class are feeling very economically exposed, and the only way to appeal to them is to address the issue that is driving their vote.”
Labor will also use Senate estimates to target the government over a series of controversies at Australia Post, with Opposition communications spokeswoman Michelle Rowland accusing a “dysfunctional” board of dodging scrutiny.
Despite weeks of negotiations, board chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo and deputy Andrea Staines won’t appear, with Mr Di Bartolomeo offering instead to answer written questions.
Labor wants the board to explain COVID-19 delivery changes and lobbying of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over a key Senate vote.
In July, lawyers for chief executive Christine Holgate threatened to call in police over delays to the delivery of One Nation-branded stubby holders to residents of Melbourne’s locked down public housing towers.
WITH TOM MCILROY