Something extraordinary is happening in Parliamentary Question Time this week.

The Coalition is feeling genuine confidence in the policy debate, arguably for the first time since the 2014 budget.

Even more extraordinary, it is scoring goals on two of Labor's most hallowed home grounds: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and education.

You can always tell when the Government thinks it is on a winner by the substance of its Dorothy Dixers — the questions government MPs ask their own ministers in Question Time.

Today, the first four Dixers were about the NDIS, the policy Opposition Leader Bill Shorten himself designed.

But today, as happened yesterday, the Government was doing its best to claim ownership of the scheme, lashing the Opposition in answer after answer for not fully supporting it.

You could almost see the steam rising from the Labor benches.

The next Dixer to the Prime Minister was on school funding, another Labor strength.

Malcolm Turnbull whips out his phone to hit back at Tanya Plibersek's school funding claims. ( ABC News: Marco Catalano )

But in his answer, Malcolm Turnbull accused Labor of never supporting needs-based funding, slamming the special deals former PM Julia Gillard made with the Catholic and independent sectors.

When Labor's education spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, sought to regain the advantage by pointing to Peel High School in Tamworth losing $1.68 million over two years, the Prime Minister whipped out his online calculator and returned serve with a claim the school will actually get $8.5 million over 10 years.

There are different claims of funding being made by federal and state governments, but the point is Mr Turnbull was ready with an easy answer.

"The member for Sydney has been posing as a champion of underprivileged schools for years and now she has been exposed," he bellowed.

That was too much for Ms Plibersek. She blew her top and was ejected from Parliament.

Clearly Labor is feeling some pressure.

Tanya Plibersek was ejected after questioning the Government's proposed Gonski 2.0 reform. ( ABC News: Marco Catalano )

The interesting point to all this is the reason for the Government's confidence.

The Government jumped to the left in the budget, seeking to neutralise Labor's winning streak on health, education and the NDIS.

But neutralisation, on its own, provides a stalemate at best.

It was Mr Shorten's decision to cross swords once again on education funding and the NDIS, that set up the new battle grounds.

By only supporting the Medicare levy increase for those earning more than $87,000, Mr Shorten enabled the Prime Minister to claim Labor was not fully behind the NDIS funding.

Despite Labor's cries that the scheme is already fully funded and their claim its economic plan will raise even more money, it still hurts.

Similarly, Labor's promise to return $22 billion to education, the amount the Government will save from its Gonski 2.0 arrangements, could yet yield political pay dirt.

But for such a whopping price tag, there's little sign of that right now.

The Government can rightly claim schools funding will continue to go up for all except a handful of schools.

Even former Labor minister Craig Emerson is urging the ALP to lay down its arms.

"It should support the full increase in the Medicare levy, unconditionally back the bank levy and pass the school funding legislation while promising to enhance it in government," he told the Financial Review.

The long game could yet turn to Mr Shorten's advantage, as it has many times since he became leader.

The Coalition's $65 billion company tax cut, alongside its plan to increase income tax for almost all Australians is a toxic combination.

But if Question Time this week is any indication, we are starting to see why leadership hopeful Anthony Albanese was so concerned about the post-budget narrative Mr Shorten was trying to weave.