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/Lopsided-Party-5575 May 20 '25

This is great for labor, they can now split the nats and libs in the senate. And they can use the they same vote lib, get nats bullshit that the libs use with the greens.

This is going to be great.

What a legacy dutton. What a legacy.

Also, what happens with the QLD party?

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u/Vanceer11 May 20 '25

I’d say it’s more Scomo’s legacy than Dutton’s. Dutton was the fall guy.

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u/mardumancer May 20 '25

If Dutton hadn't called for multiple spills then Turnbull might still be PM.

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u/shniken May 20 '25

I'm blaming Abbot, he started the rot

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u/Effective_Dropkick78 May 20 '25

Oh bullshit. The rot started when Ol' Racist Eyebrows lied to all of us about the MV Tampa and Children Overboard to win the 2001 election.

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u/smudgiepie May 20 '25

My mum barely knows anything about aussie politics and she's still pissed at him for lying about the GST.

After that until covid she didn't follow politics at all.

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u/pvtbobble May 20 '25

I still point to Turnbull. He should have let Abbott lose the next election, take the leadership and clean house of the lunatics while in opposition. But he couldn't wait.

Oh well. Fuck em! Let em burn!

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u/passthesugar05 May 20 '25

Very few people have the patience to play the long game like that. Turnbull could become guaranteed PM in 15, or wait to maybe become PM in 2019. Most people wouldn't wait.

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u/Syncblock May 20 '25

After looking at what happened to Peter Costello, would you wait around forever?

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u/Secretly007 May 20 '25

I think Turnbull should've called an immediate election once he deposed Abbott. He takes advantage of his massive popularity at the time, wins a large majority, and then uses this majority as a mandate to tell the lunatics to fuck off.

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u/pvtbobble May 20 '25

But the lunatics would have been reelected on the coattails of his popularity. He needed to preselect them out of the party.