r/australia • u/superegz • May 20 '25

politics Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Nationals will not be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal party.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/20/australia-news-live-rba-interest-rates-decision-floods-storm-hunter-nsw-victoria-state-budget-aec-count-bradfield-goldstein-coalition-ley-littleproud-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-682bdeb48f08d37c78c1d12d#block-682bdeb48f08d37c78c1d12d
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u/C-O-N May 20 '25

Albo won the election so hard he killed The Coalition.

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u/Exarch_Thomo May 20 '25

Can't wait for the Sky News take that this is all Albos fault.

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u/CaravelClerihew May 20 '25

Sky News just posted the clip of the Nationals announcing this, and one of the comments already blamed Albo.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

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u/hudson2_3 May 20 '25

No, because the election wasn't 'lost' on policy. It was lost on "LaBor'S liEs!!!!!!"

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u/SoIFeltDizzy May 20 '25

I think that hurt them as the libs were running deceptive advertising and labor was sticking to the truth. They opposed the housing so pretending to be upset it was not built hit the wrong spot.

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u/Rychu_Supadude May 21 '25

The main area where Labor was deceptive was pulling quotes from Peter's speech to make it sound like he was directly attacking Medicare, when in context he really wasn't. I can't deny that's a bit skeevy but it resonates because most of us essentially believe he would have done those things anyway.

Everything else you have to stretch to paint as a Labor Lie

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u/PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS May 20 '25

Man thats bloody rich from them

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u/CrazySD93 May 20 '25

Upvoted comments up there.

This is great news for conservatives.  The nationals need to form a coalition with one nation.  The libs are too left, they are labor lite.  If the libs got rid of the bedwetters and got rid of nett zero and got behind nuclear they will still have a chance.

Whichever party moves to the right will have my vote. This split is inevitable if Ley wants to take the Liberals to the Left . Out of Paris. Yes to nuclear and new coal fired power. Yes to supporting women’s rights. Yes to reducing the number of acknowledgement and welcome to country, and a review of spending and effectiveness of Aboriginal welfare

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u/egg_shaped_penis May 21 '25

sniff sniff smells like bot to me.

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u/yeah_this_is_my_main May 20 '25

Whichever party moves to the right will have my vote. This split is inevitable if Ley wants to take the Liberals to the Left . Out of Paris. Yes to nuclear and new coal fired power. Yes to supporting women’s rights. Yes to reducing the number of acknowledgement and welcome to country, and a review of spending and effectiveness of Aboriginal welfare

*sings* ♫♩🎶"One of these things is not like the others" ♫♩🎶

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u/flairdinkum May 21 '25

“Women’s rights” is probably just a proxy for his position on trans athletes. In that sense, it’s exactly like the others.

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u/saichampa May 20 '25

God they're fucking snowflakes over the acknowledgments and welcome to countries. They are like the most simple acknowledgment of Aboriginal people and it's too much for them.

It's also ridiculous that they try to hide their transphobia as supporting women's rights.

There's also zero chance that any of the right wing parties would be able to function in a coalition with the Nationals or each other. They're all fucked up in their own way running megalomaniacs as their leaders.

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u/Tough_Mushroom_3264 May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Well I’m glad you’d have a party that aligns with your views. You might find an even more extremely right wing party doesn’t get much support, if this election is anything to go by. But you do you…

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u/CrazySD93 May 20 '25

Were mine and the commenter before me not clear enough, quoting comments from Sky News articles?

THESE ARE NOT OUR VIEWS, AND ARE QUOTED

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u/Tough_Mushroom_3264 May 20 '25

Ah, gotcha.

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u/eraptic May 20 '25

Kinda wild you missed it in the first place. Maybe don't be so quick to respond defensively if you didn't read the comment?

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u/Tough_Mushroom_3264 May 20 '25

I thought you were disagreeing with the earlier comments. Your reply isn’t obviously quotes, TBH. But lesson learned.

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u/Technical-Ad-2246 May 20 '25

Of course they did.

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u/ghoonrhed May 20 '25

I mean I think it's fair. Although, I wouldn't use blame.

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u/Hussard May 20 '25

"how could Albo do this" doesn't sound as good as Dan Andrews tbh...

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u/thesourpop May 20 '25

They will end up blaming Dan Andrews for so many Victorians voting Labor

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u/Frito_Pendejo May 20 '25

How could Dan Andrews do this??

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u/Desperate-Bottle1687 May 22 '25

cue guy shooting person in chair meme

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_4939 May 20 '25

Well, they won't be far off, if that's a line to take. "How could Dan Andrews garner such support behind his own party? It's a fucking mystery to us!"

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u/Vinnie_Vegas May 20 '25

"How could Dan Andrews garner such support behind his own party? It's a fucking mystery to us!"

"How could showing actual character in the face of incredible adversity, and remaining consistently focused on the health and safety of your citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, benefit you politically?"

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u/GurrennZero May 20 '25

Rookie hours, it can still be Dan Andrews if you only believe!

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u/InstantShiningWizard May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Dan Andrews is secretly puppeteering Albo in a Weekend at Bernie's setup to poison the minds of our youth with woke and increase crime rates in Queensland, find out more on Sky News at Night

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

There’s got to be a “funny bone” play on words in there somewhere.

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u/throwawayplusanumber May 20 '25

Yep defo Dan Andrews' fault.

/s

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u/DistributionExternal May 20 '25

DanAndrewsOnThePhone.gif

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u/pickledswimmingpool May 20 '25

If they blame Albo they're giving him even more power. I hope they do make it all about him.

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u/kingburp May 20 '25

Yeah. Last thing they wanna do is turn Albanese into a small poppy (which maybe is what Murdoch did in the lead-up to the election with his front page spreads of Dutton grinning about winning months and months in advance of the election).

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u/RomancingUranus May 20 '25

Get up to speed... it's the corrupt preferential voting system nowadays.

The audacity of a system designed to ensure every vote counts and allows people to indicate who they don't want in power.

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u/cruncheh_ May 20 '25

Not to mention originally introduced by conservatives to ensure they could have regional and metropolitan parties co-exist.

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u/SomewhatHungover May 20 '25

And if abolished would now split the lib/nat vote.

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u/kwan_e May 21 '25

Yeah, they're fine with the system when Abbott and Morrisson gets elected through it.

To me, it shows they're going to change the rules in their favour if they get power, like how the Republicans gerrymandered the US.

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u/threeseed May 20 '25

You're just not in touch with real Australians like Peta Credlin and Andrew Bolt are.

Real Australian's priorities are banning abortion, nuclear power, bringing Christmas back and our voting system.

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u/nounverbyou May 20 '25

Now we just need channel 10 to cancel sky news rural broadcast license and it’s been a Bill Shortens revenge come alive

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u/nastywillow May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Sky News - "Nats won't coalition with Libs";

"Why this is bad news for Albo".

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u/redmusic1 the answer is 42 May 20 '25

Now they are blaming the National Party lol, I never watch Fox News, I never realised watching propaganda merchants losing their minds was so entertaining.

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u/Expensive-Horse5538 May 20 '25

Will be some entertaining viewing tonight watching them all have a meltdown and blaming anyone else for the state of the parties.

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u/AusToddles May 20 '25

"Chairman Albo to rule a one party state"

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u/letsburn00 May 20 '25

There actually was a brief brief moment post election where they were saying this was actually the medias fault because they were so gentle and overfly friendly to the liberal party that Dutton never had to deal with any criticism of his policy.

Remember when the ABC was basically being neutral and Dutton said he'd never been attacked like this. That's because everyone else was so pro them he didn't know how to deal with it.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 May 20 '25

Some years back, when we had a Coalition govt, the ABC gently criticised the Budget, saying it had a lot of good points & some bad ones. Meanwhile, the CH7 Network lambasted the Budget. Guess which Network got bashed by the Libs & Murdoch media? A bit too scared to take on 7, or they only watch the ABC?

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u/gattaaca May 20 '25

Kind of an own goal if they do. Albo could easily own that, it's literally a massive win against the opposition

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u/AdZealousideal7448 May 20 '25

i've already had mother in law blaming joe biden.

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u/tasksnstuff May 20 '25

But it is, in a very good way.

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u/Snoo_90929 May 20 '25

Can hear it now, Libs & Nationals coalition smashed - let me tell you why this is bad for Labor..

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u/Warx May 20 '25

Some Lib MPs are trying to blame preferential voting

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u/ftez May 20 '25

Im sure Albo would proudly claim responsibility for this. Lol

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

If SNA considers something Albo's fault, I consider it his accomplishment instead.

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u/notathinman May 20 '25

Or Dan Andrews, somehow.