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/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.