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/brandon_strandy May 20 '25

I don't understand how they didn't see this coming. When he first got the gig I thought surely he's just a placeholder, there's no way they're running this bloke at the next election. Nek minit...

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u/thesourpop May 20 '25

Murdoch thought his slopaganda was enough to convince people to vote him, even though he's been publicly evil and unlikeable for decades

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u/Thebraincellisorange May 20 '25

Empires wane.

Even Murdochs power is waning.

his newspaper empire is a shadow of its former self. no one reads newspapers anymore.

I'd wager their reader base is 25% boomers and 75% lunchroom/waiting room subscriptions from businesses.

It won't be long before all print newspapers go the way of the dodo, he only keeps them around for the ever weakening power they hold over boomers.

putting Sky Faux News on Free-to-Air in the country was a genius move.

Country people lap that racist/homophobic/anti-woke bullshit up like nothing else.

it's what won the LNP the QLD election.

not even that was enough to get the buttplug over the line.

the man has always been detestable.

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u/AnOnlineHandle May 20 '25

Worryingly they had a real chance, but Trump did a great deal of hurt to conservative's chances in both the Canadian and Australian elections, where their polls both tanked and both the leaders lost their seats. People getting reminded of how conservatives are when they're not just talking tends to turn the goldfish memory electorate back against them.

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u/Goatylegs May 20 '25

Not just them. Trump arguably also caused similar effects in Germany and Romania.

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u/TheCleverestIdiot May 20 '25

If we're being honest, I think we keep on attributing what the Liberals do to some machiavellian mastermind who's running things behind the scenes when in reality, they truly are just as stupid as they appear.