The Liberals have given Sussan Ley the authority to reform the Coalition with the Nationals amid David Littleproud’s four non-negotiable demands; In Bradfield, teal Nicolette Boele and Liberal Gisele Kapterian are dead level as a recount looks likely.
Nationals leader David Littleproud was in the middle of handing out ‘shadow’ portfolios to his country party MPs when Sussan Ley summoned him to her office to discuss a civil war truce.
Nationals leader David Littleproud has confirmed a morning meeting with Sussan Ley, during which the pair agreed to delay announcing their respective frontbench line-ups as talks to revive the Coalition continue.
Anthony Albanese says it is not reasonable that Liberals and the Nationals MPs should be given the ‘reward’ of more advisers after the collapse of the Coalition.
The architect of Labor’s 2025 election victory, Paul Erickson, has left the door open to re-using the Mediscare campaign when Australians next go to the polls.
Sussan Ley intends not to re-form a Coalition with David Littleproud before the 2028 election as she moves to seize on the Nationals’ shock split to promote up to nine additional Liberal MPs to her new opposition frontbench.
Liberal MPs agreed there would be ‘more jobs for everyone’ after the Coalition split, but time would tell how well they would take to traditional National roles like resources.
The Nationals have failed to reach a position yet on a future Coalition agreement with the Liberals in opposition at a meeting on Friday of their heads of state and federal branches.
Liberal leader Sussan says she and Nationals Leader David Littleproud had ‘a good first meeting’ on Friday about a future Coalition agreement while Nationals sources say their party is taking no position before next week.
Greens Leader Larissa Waters has declared the left-wing party will always call out ‘atrocities’ when they occur, in an allusion to the Middle East conflict, saying Jewish voters ‘don’t want a genocide either’.
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