The Federal Government has limped out of 2021 in bad shape.

So says the 9News political team in Parliament House, handing down a tough verdict in their year in review.

“The government’s had a bad year,” political editor Chris Uhlmann said.

“There’s no way to look at it other than that.”

There were scandals at the start of the year and the end, with a difficult vaccine rollout and stoushes between Scott Morrison and the state governments.

“What he needs is for everyone to have a great Christmas,” Uhlmann said.