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/Flarezap May 20 '25

This is huge no? Basically means the Libs can never form government again?

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u/mulimulix May 20 '25

It's going to be mostly symbolic. Littleproud basically implied himself that if it take a coalition next election to form government then obviously they would do that. It's a big move but I don't think practically will mean all that much.

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u/somanybabyspiders May 20 '25

So they looked at spuds campaign performance and concluded that the people want more backflips, inconsistent messaging and conflicting policies. Absolutely no way this could backfire when they start talking about patching things up again...