Canavan's rebrand and new Facebook photo, Albanese's Trump rebuke
By Courtney Gould

With retro shades, big rhetoric and a rejection of net zero, Matt Canavan is hoping to reshape the Nationals. His first big test is just weeks away.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/matt-canavan-pit-viper-brand-albanese-trump/106536778

#FederalParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #NationalPartyofAustralia #OilandGas #CourtneyGould

Emotional David Littleproud steps down as leader of the National Party
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/david-littleproud-steps-down-as-nationals-leader/106437902

David Littleproud has quit as leader of the National Party of Australia.

In recent months, David Littleproud's notable leadership achievements include:
- Breaking-up the decades-long Coalition between the Nationals and the Liberals multiple times in a matter of months.
- Coming close to destroying the LNP / Coalition with the contrarily-named Liberal Party of Australia, and securing its position of irrelevancy for the next election.
- Coming close to destroying the National Party, and securing their position of irrelevancy for the next election.
- Failing to swing the Coalition so far to the right that it adopts his personal Neo-Nazi policies.
- Giving airtime to Neo-Nazi policies, such as those espoused by One Nation, thereby doing nothing to help the Nationals but drastically improving One Nation's polling for the next election.
- Shafting prior, long-standing leader of the National Party, Bananaby Joyce, so nastily that he quit the Nationals and sucked-up to Pauline Hanson to join One Nation.
- Shafting leader of the Liberal Party, Susssan Ley, so nastily that she lost a spill for her party's leadership position to Angus Taylor, and then quit politics altogether.

That's quite a list of achievements by David Littleproud! Little wonder that he proclaimed, "I'm buggered, I've had enough," at today's press conference.

#AusPol #DavidLittleproud #BananabyJoyce #BarnabyJoyce #SussanLey #SusssanLey #AngusTaylor #NationalPartyofAustralia #OneNation #PaulineHanson

@feather1952

One of the problems (there are many) with Australian politicians is that they think there is a direct correlation between television airtime and newspaper column inches with importance and relevance.

They are all narcissists, more concerned with themselves than the people they claim to represent.

The coalition ’divorce’ was never about principle, it was always about remaining the main topic in the media.

#auspol #lnp #NationalPartyofAustralia #coalition

My summation of the National Liberal spilt.

Largely meaningless theatre and inconsequential.

Time will tell.

#auspol #LiberalPartyofAustralia #NationalPartyofAustralia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2025/may/20/is-it-really-over-what-does-the-nationals-split-from-the-coalition-mean-for-australian-politics-full-story-podcast

The Liberals elect a female leader.

Shortly after the Nationals say they don’t want to be a part of that nonsense.

#auspol #coalition #LiberalPartyofAustralia #nationalparty #NationalPartyofAustralia #liberals #liberalparty

#auspol #australia #climate #climatecrisis #dutton #liberal #NationalPartyofAustralia #paris #parisagreement

To my horror I’ve just learned Dutton plans to scrap Australia’s 2030 emissions targets (they’re rising anyway) - and…wait for it…walk away from the Paris climate agreement if they win a majority at the next election !!!
This is a monstrous idea and tells us who this guy really is. Only interested in political power, ‘not’ the people, not our kids or the next generation. Let’s destroy everything so a few of us can be filthy rich as the planet burns and drowns in floods.
Please consider donating to Climate200 as I do to ensure that Dutton is kept away from the levers of power