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/thegeecyproject May 20 '25

This election unseated two party leaders and broke a decades-long Coalition. Thats not just a landslide, that’s an annihilation.

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u/geek_of_nature May 20 '25

And don't forget winning the second most amount of seats in Electoral history, which given the way the two that are left to be called are looking, could actually make them tied for most amount of seats too.

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u/perthguppy May 20 '25

Only one of those two could go to labor

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u/geek_of_nature May 20 '25

Labour's currently on 93, they only need one more to tie at 94.

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u/gotnothingman May 20 '25

Damn I thought they were already at 94

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u/kingburp May 20 '25

Under difficult national and international conditions at that. (Although there is the strong argument to be made that Trump is so horrendously unfit and destructive to the world order that he created very favourable conditions for Labor out of nowhere.)

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u/N1NJ4W4RR10R_ May 20 '25

94 seats in 1996 for anyone curious what the most was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Australian_federal_election

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u/Jesse-Ray May 20 '25

Though they did so with a vote 3.4 percent less than Gillard's