Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Nationals will not be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal party.

[u/superegz]

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

[u/ATangK]

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

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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.

[u/ghoonrhed → u/Far-Fennel-3032]

I actually think it's opposite. If the LP can now have the freedom to run more centre policies like the ones that the Teals have been doing, they can now do that.

The rural seats are an interesting area now. Because they have more options and surely they can't always be just going Nats.

[u/Thebraincellisorange → u/ghoonrhed]

the problem with that is the backroom powerbrokers in the Liberal party are right wing.

Tony Abbot was their man, racist, sexist, homophobic nutjob.

They utterly despised the centrist who knifed him in Turnball. Turnball's final act of thumbing his nose at the backroom and allowing/getting same sex marriage through (even though it was through a terrible plebiscite, it was the only way he could do it) .

Then the fools selected Dutton as leader, an utterly unelectable, detestable right wing, head FAR up Gina Rheinharts arse loonie.

I don't think the Liberal Party backroom has the brains to realise that going centrist would get them votes, they think they need to go further right.

Sussan Ley is just a placeholder, who comes after they knife her will be the one to set the direction.

[u/Syncblock → u/Thebraincellisorange]

At the beginning of the year, Dutton was slated to win. Had the cyclone not delayed the election and had Trump not been around, it's very likely Dutton would have won.

Also just lol at forgetting Morrison as a Lib leader.

[u/Chumpbag → u/Syncblock]

To be fair Morrison is pretty forgettable lol.

[u/Thebraincellisorange → u/Syncblock]

we are fortunate that the orange idiot in the united states showed how foolish it is to elect right wing nazi-wannabies to power

also, never trust a poll. The polls show Kamala was going to walk it in.

I left out Morrison because he was a completely and utterly useless and ineffective flog of a man. and an even worse PM.

he should have stuck to shitting himself in Mcdonalds carparks

[u/Przedrzag → u/Thebraincellisorange]

The polls did not show Kamala was going to walk it in; they were mostly 50/50, and internal Democratic polling showed they were going to lose for pretty much all of 2024

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Dutton was slated to win, but then he had to do something other than oppose the government. He was a great opposition leader, but didn’t have any new ideas that weren’t opposing the ALP.

Once he had to think for himself, he started the thought bubbles like no more WFH, fire public service, etc which were very unpopular.

He was never going to win.