Winning a federal election and retaining her role as minister for health should have given Sussan Ley a plum start to the second half of the year, but as is the case for many politicians who put their hand up for this most difficult and treacherous portfolio – let's face it: you can never win – Ms Ley was bowled a few wrong'uns that would have made Shane Warne proud.

While some of them were pure bad luck, others were of her, her office or her department's own making, like not ensuring legislation enabling the establishment of the National Cancer Screening Register was passed by Parliament before awarding the contract to Telstra Health and not funding the Health Care Home initiative to the level required by the RACGP. Unlike Warne's career, Ms Ley's new term in government started well but looks like ending disastrously, with another doctors' revolt on her hands and even noises of a reshuffle in the wind.