The Latest Breaking News from Nationals

Liberal MPs have held urgent talks over policy demands from the Nationals that hold the key to the two long-time partners reuniting in opposition.

Fears split with Coalition will diminish party’s relevance and ability to advocate for rural communities

The Victorian and NSW Nationals senators due to face the voters at the 2028 election will struggle to hold their seats if the former partners do not re-form the Coalition before then.

The Nationals say they’re doing this ‘for the right reasons’, and part of you has to respect that – provided it’s the part incapable of adding up numbers

The four policy sticking points that broke up the Nationals and Liberals highlight their vastly different stances on privatisation

Some senior Liberal figures think the party could be freed up to chase more urban voters; Britain halts trade talks and calls Gaza policy ‘repellent’

Liberals and Nationals are being told to focus on applying the blowtorch to Labor rather than letting infighting take hold after their political marriage ended.

Reforming with Nationals could be very difficult once deep policy divergences set in and are openly debated, MPs say

National Party says it is ‘time to have a break’ with the Liberals

I remember seeing footage, several years ago, of a jubilant Malcolm Turnbull, then prime minister and Liberal leader, speaking in Tamworth to loyal members of the National Party. These were the rank and file who had spent weeks stumping for their man in New England, Nationals leader and deputy prime…

The Nationals are now a minor party – here’s what’s changing, from question time allocations to salaries