28-05-2025
Coalition gets back together after week-long split
The Liberal and National parties have struck a deal to reunify, a week after the Coalition's extraordinary split in the wake of a ruinous election defeat.
The ABC has been told a press conference will be held later today, and that frontbench positions are being allocated.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud announced last Tuesday that his party would be ending the Coalition Agreement with the Liberals over four policy issues the party demanded be kept.
Days later, the Liberal Party agreed in principle not to include those policies — nuclear power, a Regional Australia Future Fund, break-up powers for the supermarket sector and better mobile coverage in the bush — in a sweeping review of the Coalition's election loss.
