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Only government, of any political persuasion, I can recall being so destructive to itself would be the Liberal - Green state government in Tasmania 1996 to its early demise in 1998.

Federally this is the closest I can recall seeing to that. They're picking fights and alienating supporters in a way that just screams self-destruction.

In truth I think we're in a situation that neither major party nor their supporters really wants to admit and that's a situation of the chickens coming home to roost. There's some pretty serious issues needing solutions meanwhile the Public Service is far too hollowed out of the sort of people needed to solve them.

Housing, energy, inflation / economy, national security / war/ geopolitics, immigration, etc. Big stuff.

Regarding that point, the PS, to be honest I think many approach it the wrong way. As a nation the thing we most need from it isn't efficiency and productivity but rather it's technical expertise and the "frank and fearless" approach. That's what's most needed, expertise and getting things right. If the bureaucracy takes a month to send out the paperwork then that's a minor nuisance - not ideal but it's getting things right that's most important, that's what we need it to be good at. Sadly it's that expertise and fearless approach that's been lost with the political and management thinking of recent years which thought sending the forms out on time was the priority.