Eye-watering pay cuts after Coalition split
David Littleproud is among senior Nationals MPs facing a very steep pay cut after the sensational collapse of the Coalition.
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‘Deliberate’: Ley hits back at Nats
The fallout from the Coalition break-up is getting uglier, with Sussan Ley accusing Bridget McKenzie of being deliberately misleading over a key issue.
Nationals MP calls for quick return of Coalition
Darren Chester has pushed for the Nationals to rejoin the Coalition before parliament returns, declaring that remaining separated was handing Anthony Albanese a ‘free pass’.
‘Deliberate’: Ley hits back at Nats
The fallout from the Coalition break-up is getting uglier, with Sussan Ley accusing Bridget McKenzie of being deliberately misleading over a key issue.
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate – as an alternative to Labor’s approach
Nationals’ exit from Coalition a warning signal to Liberals
The Nationals are signalling to the Liberals that, in the aftermath of the worst defeat the Coalition has experienced, it must not be business as usual – in other words, a slow drift to the left.
Trial separation is not end of the world for Coalition
Ley has free hand to refashion the Liberal offering for lost city voters.
Three-year Noalition: divorce set to last to the next election
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.
‘Terrible consequences’ if two parties do not reunite: Howard
Liberal and National Party elders – including former PM John Howard – are urging David Littleproud and Sussan Ley to rebuild the Coalition or face ‘terrible consequences’.
Federal split sparks Queensland Liberal National Party demerger debate
A Queensland Nationals MP has raised the spectre of the state’s Liberal National Party de-merging in the wake of the Coalition split, as LNP leaders insist it is business as usual.
Go your own way: Split from Nationals not viable for Ley
The Nationals’ split from the Liberals is more than the final humiliation for the Coalition following its May 3 drubbing. If left unattended, it risks becoming potentially cataclysmic.
Nationals to lose ‘staff and money’
Deputy leader Kevin Hogan says the forgoing of personnel, finances, and ‘positions and titles’ was not a ‘focus of discussions’ of the party’s historic split with the Liberals.
How Littleproud’s ambush killed the Coalition in a virtual hook-up
Some Nationals MPs and senators who dialled into the virtual partyroom meeting that tore up the Coalition did not outwardly oppose David Littleproud’s move, but privately believed their leader was cooking his own goose.
Littleproud talks nonsense as he takes party to the right
The Nationals’ tantrum, which comes less than a week after Sussan Ley was elected and days after her mother passed away, smacks of the worst type of short-term posturing in the wake of the most devastating result for the conservative parties in history.
Howard warns of ‘terrible consequences’ after Coalition split
The former prime minister says he is deeply concerned about the split in the Coalition and urged both the Liberal Party and Nationals to reform quickly.
‘Smoking ruin’: Brutal call on Coalition split
Jim Chalmers has blasted the Coalition’s failure to ink an agreement, accusing the Liberals and Nationals of being “entirely focused on themselves”.
Coalition split after Ley told Littleproud key policy demands weren’t guaranteed
Sussan Ley confirmed in writing to David Littleproud that she could not guarantee that the Nationals’ four key policy demands would be Coalition policy in the current term of parliament, triggering the major split in conservative parties.
States diverge on way ahead for renewable energy plans
Victoria risks it all on what may turn out to be an ideological bender.
Littleproud flags lifting nuclear energy ban
Nationals leader David Littleproud says the net zero emissions by 2050 target will be unreachable without nuclear power, signalling the Coalition could abandon its plan to build government-owned reactors.
Albo slammed for ‘masterful’ election lie
Nationals leader David Littleproud has hit back at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s “masterful” election lie around nuclear policy
Albo slammed for ‘masterful’ election lie
Nationals leader David Littleproud has hit back at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s “masterful” election lie around nuclear policy
‘Divergence’ of views within Coalition on climate ‘no secret’: Ruston
Frontbencher Anne Ruston’s comments come as some within the Nationals push for the Coalition to reject the net-zero target, which has driven a wedge between the two parties as a new agreement is under negotiation.
Should we stay or should we go? Nationals torn on Coalition
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.
Coalition agreement possible next week but Nationals undecided
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.
Nationals offer pragmatic approach to politics of energy
Greater frontbench representation from the Nationals would add a backbone of pragmatism and common sense to a wavering Coalition. That includes the Nationals’ support for nuclear power.
‘Very friendly’ talks amid cloud over Coalition
Liberals leader Sussan Ley and her Nationals counterpart David Littleproud have had their first meeting amid serious doubt over the Coalition’s future.
Greens will always call out ‘genocide’: new leader Waters
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’.
Coalition agreement not a ‘foregone conclusion’
Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie says the Coalition agreement with the Liberals should not be considered a ‘foregone conclusion’, as a rift deepens in the junior party over net zero by 2050.
LNP set to retain Longman despite big Labor swing
Sitting Liberal National Party MP Terry Young is now 335 votes ahead of Labor’s candidate Rhiannyn Douglas after preferences have been distributed, extending his slim lead from Tuesday.
Nationals’ pact with Coalition ‘never a certainty’: Hogan
Kevin Hogan says while his party intends to recommit to a Coalition agreement with the Liberals, a deal is ‘never a certainty’ amid a deepening rift over the net zero emissions target.
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