As Parliament returns it's been a historic week in Canberra, with MPs joining via video link for the first time.

In the halls of power, our politicians are already discussing the story they'll try to sell at the election with some tipping we could be voting again within a year.

Outside Canberra, relations between the states and the Federal Government continue to sour and new branch stacking allegations come to light in Victoria.

To help break it all down PK and Fran and joined by the ABC's Political Editor Andrew Probyn.