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Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition Ends Tie-up After Decades
Australia’s decades-long Liberal-National tie-up will end after the leader of the National Party, David Littleproud, said his ...
National and Liberal backroom push to reunite parties, just a day after divorce
Just a day after they filed for divorce, there is a backroom push underway to get the Liberals and Nationals back together.
David Littleproud cites nuclear energy disagreement as major factor in Coalition split
Littleproud could not balance his party’s competing views on energy policy while inking a deal with the Liberals. Instead, ...
How David Littleproud killed the Coalition in one virtual hook-up
The final trigger in the death of the modern-day Coalition was a note sent by Sussan Ley to David Littleproud that he read ...
Nationals partyroom vote on Coalition split 'not unanimous' as leader David Littleproud says decision made 'on principle'
Nationals leader David Littleproud has declared the Liberal Party cannot win government without the Nationals, after his party’s shock decision to walk away from the Coalition.
Littleproud may have ended things, but this breakup was a decade in the making
The split between the Nationals and the Liberal Party isn’t some temporary break. And it all but guarantees Sussan Ley will ...
Program: David Littleproud says he would like to 'try and reform the Coalition' before the next election
Leader of the Nationals David Littleproud has told Ali Moore he would like to "try and reform" the Coalition "before the next ...
David Littleproud flags lifting ban on nuclear energy as the only pathway to net-zero emissions
Nationals leader David Littleproud says the net-zero emissions by 2050 target will be unreachable without nuclear power, ...
‘Not a game of chicken’: David Littleproud defends Nationals’ split from Coalition
Nationals Leader David Littleproud has defended his party’s decision to split from the Coalition, calling it a “principled ...
Capital Brief on MSN1d
Ley says Littleproud's decision to split Coalition is 'disappointing'
The Liberals and Nationals have failed to secure an agreement to maintain the Coalition, prompting the first split in decades ...
Opinion
David Littleproud is the ‘right’ choice for Nationals leader
Telegraph's James Willis says it was the ‘right’ decision for the Nationals to back David Littleproud as leader of the party. “I think David Littleproud has handled this well,” Mr Willis told Sky News ...
Grattan on Friday: Ley and Littleproud have had a prickly relationship – can they negotiate a smooth future?
Rebuilding the Coalition will be a difficult task, but can the two Coalition leaders put their past behind and unify in the ...