Who’s leading the National Party?95% of Australian voters can’t name the leader of the National Party, Warren Truss. Is it time for the higher-profile Barnaby Joyce to take over as leader? asks Michelle Grattan — after all, 4% of voters already think he is.
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Bradfield will be a test for the Liberals, mark my words
Byelections can no longer be guaranteed to record good results for Opposition parties. So how will the Bradfield byelection play out? If the Liberal share is less than 58%, it’ll be bad news for Malcolm Turnbull.
Lack of green policy alienates Nationals’ key voters
The Nationals have launched a new slogan ‘Nationals for Regional Australia’, except their lack of concrete policies on climate change or the environment, are doing little to encourage regional support from coastal areas.
Turnbull and Joyce: the soon-to-be past and the likely future
The Liberals and the Nationals are still at a crossroads with their respective leaderships. Who can lead the Liberals to minimise the bleeding at the next election? When will Barnaby Joyce get enough support for the leadership?
Measuring the National Party’s decline
Possum Comitatus charts decline in National Party seats from 1996 to 2007 and finds it’s not as big as most are making out.
Ain’t no party like a National Party
The National Party ran its national conference over the weekend, and The Oz appears to have caught party fever, running across the board coverage from this important national event this morning.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nuclear power and relations with China
Crikey readers weigh in on nuclear power, relations with China and the politics between the Greens and the Nationals.
Water authority would dampen business plans
Water management shouldn’t be a tug of war between private enterprise and government. Australia needs a national water authority to manage, regulate and allocate water, writes Bruce Haigh and Kellie Tranter.
Will the Nationals quit the Coalition?
The National Party is discussing leaving the Coalition, amid frustration at poor polling, opinions being ignored by Liberals, and a lack of focus on regional Australia, writes Matthew Franklin.
Farmers and Nats don’t see eye-to-eye on climate change
The ABS has surveyed the views of farm managers on climate change and its effects on their business, finding the impacts from climate change are overwhelmingly seen to be negative — a far cry from the National Party line on climate change, says Possum Comitatus.
Crazy uncle Tuckey and the Coalition crash
The Coalition are tearing each other apart, with Joe Hockey likening Wilson Tuckey to the “the crazy uncle at a family wedding” and Warren Truss turning on Turnbull, as the ETS divides the party room.
Warren Truss: If only journos treated Labor as badly as the Nats
Journalists can deal in wish fulfilment all they like in their private lives, but it’s a different story when it comes to their responsibilities as journalists, writes Warren Truss, leader of the National Party.
The Coalition: subdivided on emissions trading
Contrary to the nonsense peddled by Kevin Rudd in Question Time yesterday, Malcolm Turnbull didn’t get rolled by his party room yesterday at all. In fact, he managed a compromise with all but Costello.
Nats don’t mind a rural rort, as long as it goes to their constituents
The collapse of Timbercorp and Great Southern is at least partly the consequence of the Howard Government’s attempts to regain control of agricultural managed investment schemes.
Tips and rumours: Archie the celebrity dolphin harrassed
LNP leadership … Archie the celebrity dolphin … No wonder “credible” journos are taking their jobs
Sacked NSW Nat frontbencher goes feral
If Andrew Stoner gave a press conference today suggesting that Andrew Fraser be marched out at dawn, blindfolded and shot — nobody would be surprised, writes Alex Mitchell.
Deconstructing Turnbull’s green near-miracle
Some of what Turnbull proposed won’t go down that well with the Nationals but he thinks he is on a winner with biochar, writes Bernard Keane.
Lawrence Springborg’s kooky rebranding exercise
Queensland LNP leader Lawrence Springborg has started talking up the possibility of former Minister Mal Brough running for a Labor held state seat. This is quite bizarre, writes Mark Bahnisch.
