Australia's National Party has split from its conservative coalition partner of over 60 years, the Liberal Party, citing policy differences over renewable energy and after a resounding loss at a national election this month.

Australia’s decades-long Liberal-National tie-up will end after the leader of the National Party, David Littleproud, said his party won’t form another coalition agreement with the Liberal Party.

National Coalition, which has been in place for 80 years, expresses a historic crisis of the whole two-party set-up of capitalist rule.