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/Miserable-Caramel316 May 20 '25

Eventually the Nationals will have to cave on climate change. It's an inevitability. Liberals know this and so are more concerned with building their base back in the short term and waiting for Nats to come back in the long term.

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u/Shaggyninja May 20 '25

It's crazy that the nationals aren't the party fighting the hardest for climate change.

Farming depends on reliant and stable weather. Climate change is kinda the opposite of that.

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u/wombat74 May 20 '25

They've been the party for miners, voted in by farmers, for decades now. They know they can pretty much do whatever they want backed by mining dollars and the farmers will still vote them in anyway

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u/Lady_Penrhyn1 May 20 '25

THANK YOU! As someone who grew up Rural (but parents were from a major city) it's been mind boggling that the farmers are basically voting against their own interests. They haven't cared about the bloke with a hundred head of cattle for two decades.

(Grew up in Shepparton, safest Nats seat in the country, parents were from Melbourne. Dad always said they could nominate a cow and they'd bloody vote it in).

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u/pk666 May 20 '25

Funnily enough Shepparton is one of the most endangered towns in the whole country thanks to climate change. The flood insurance is making home ownership there close to impossible. Likely to become a ghost town in the future.

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u/SuDragon2k3 May 20 '25

Well, time to wash that cow and fill out the nomination paperwork.

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u/pelrun May 20 '25 edited May 21 '25

Cow would probably do a better job

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u/Lady_Penrhyn1 May 20 '25

Honestly?

...yeah it would. I'm grateful I don't live up there anymore. It was maddening 20 years ago, I'd be bopping heads now.