Australia up next: Federal election tomorrow

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curl-6 said:

The Coalition between the Liberal Party and the Nationals has split after more than 60 years:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-national-party-end-coalition-agreement-with-liberal-party-2025-05-20/

For those who aren't Australian, this basically means that our conservative party has broken in two, leaving even the bigger of the two halves with barely more power than the crossbench of independents and minor parties.

This is basically a "nuclear meltdown" for the conservative movement in Aus.

Probably something along the lines of the Nationals wanted to heed Murdock's suggestion of moving more rightwards and the Liberalst thought "Fuck that, we're out!"

What about the other members of the Coalition though? Will the Liberal National (Queensland) and the Country Liberal (Northern Territory) parties still stay in coalition or will it completely break apart?

Worth noting also is that the Nationals got less votes than both the Liberal National party and the One Nation party (about half as many as those two). While they got a bit more votes than last election, on their own they're too small to do much of anything. As such, I could see them trying to get their own coalition with One Nation and the Trumpet of Patriots running as a kind of Australian MAGA party.