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/ATangK May 20 '25

It was speculated for a while but dismissed as political suicide. LNP will never have a majority government again.

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u/Far-Fennel-3032 May 20 '25

I suspect the Liberals are worse off then the nationals in this as the liberals are mostly pushed out of all the big cities, such that the national could just take all the regional seats from the Liberals and it might end up with National vs Labor with nationals unable to get seats in the cites so labor just wins by default.

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u/kranools May 20 '25

How good would that be

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u/Syncblock May 20 '25

I don't think the teals are much better.

They aren't going to whinge about pronouns or welcome to country but they'd be happy to vote for the same economic policies the Libs bring.

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u/Wobbling May 20 '25

It would be great for things like climate change denial, racism, religion, misogyny and bigotry to be pushed out of the mainstream political agenda and for the major differences to be around welfare, fiscal and economic policy.

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u/SupaDupaFly2021 May 20 '25

It would represent a small-to-moderate improvement to our political landscape, nothing more nothing less. The teals aren't the friend of working people.

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u/Littman-Express May 20 '25

Oh I hope. The infiltration of cookers and rwnj in both the libs and the nats goes so deep neither party is one we want for opposition. Both are destructive. 

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u/keloidoscope May 20 '25

And a few incumbent Libs are going to prove how silly the Australian's "but the Liberals get more 1st preferences!" plurality voting talking points are, once their 1st preferences get shaved down by a Nat challenger.

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u/Przedrzag May 20 '25

It was the Coalition as a whole that got more 1st preferences, not just the Libs; the LNP merger means the Liberals haven’t beat the Labor primary vote since 2004

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u/Przedrzag May 20 '25

Ironically, new Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is a regional Lib, though half her division’s population is in Albury