How will Bill Shorten attempt to capitalise on the Liberal Party's leadership swap? How will Malcolm Turnbull defend his ousting of a first-term Prime Minister and distinguish his challenge from those of his recent Labor predecessors?

All eyes will be on today's Question Time as both major political parties try to take control of the narrative that will carry them forward to the next election. Meanwhile, we await Tony Abbott to break his silence about his dramatic exit from high office as well as his immediate political future.

The following statements from 24 June 2010 - the day just five years ago that Australia was set on its current leadership rollercoaster - may give us some insight into what we can expect.

Tony Abbott congratulates Julia Gillard in Question Time on June 24, 2010. ( Alan Porritt: AAP )

Then opposition leader Tony Abbott

May I offer commiserations to the member for Griffith [Kevin Rudd]. He was elected Prime Minister of Australia by the Australian people, and he should have been allowed to face the judgment of the Australian people. A midnight knock on the door followed by political execution is no way for the Australian Prime Minister to be treated. I accept that there is a big challenge for all of us in this place to offer the right policies to the Australian people. The new Prime Minister has admitted that the government has lost its way, and her challenge will be to demonstrate how things will be different given that she is as committed, it seems, to the policies of the former Prime Minister as he was himself. Regardless, I think the Australian public can expect a fierce contest. It will be a tough contest - I respect the abilities of the Prime Minister - and I hope, as well as being a tough contest, it will also be a clean and fair contest.

Julia Gillard listens to Tony Abbott during Question Time on June 24, 2010. ( Alan Porritt: AAP: file photo )

Then incoming prime minister Julia Gillard

Obviously, as Deputy Prime Minister I worked with and supported closely Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. That was the appropriate thing to do. It was also appropriate for me, as a senior member of the Labor government, to think and particularly to canvass in my own mind views about the performance of the government and the best way of making sure that we were a government that was always, each and every day, serving the interests of the Australian people. As is now a matter of record, and I said it this morning, I did form the view that this was a good government that in some areas had lost its way. I also did form the view that the best way of making sure that this government was back on track, providing to the Australian people the leadership that they deserve - focused on their jobs, their working conditions, health, education, the infrastructure they need for the future and the big challenges like climate change - was to take the course that I took last night and this morning. I am well aware that there are others who will look at that and will form a view as to whether I took the correct course. That is the nature of politics; that is the nature of making decisions about the questions of how the national interest is best served. I made a decision, and I stand by it absolutely.

Kevin Rudd speaks to reporters on June 24, 2010. ( Alan Porritt, file photo: AAP )

Then outgoing prime minister Kevin Rudd