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Flat White Politics

A very different perspective on the Coalition’s divorce

21 May 2025

10:40 AM

21 May 2025

10:40 AM

The meteoric rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party this year, which I predicted in The Spectator Australia last July, is a blueprint that the National Party should seriously consider.

If the Federal Coalition was a genuine coalition, then it would be conservative, not Labor-lite. The Coalition arrangement for the next three years would have been the worst of all worlds, with the Labor-lite Liberals running the show despite being outnumbered by the conservative Liberals plus National Party politicians.

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