Australia news live: hybrid car sales rev up as buyers steer away from petrol; fifth Iranian football player flies out despite asylum offer
By Nick Visser

New AAA data<strong> </strong>shows petrol vehicles fell to a record quarterly low of 66.3% of sales. Follow today’s news live

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/mar/16/australia-news-live-hybrid-car-sales-electric-vehicles-iran-footballers-tony-burke-asylum-oscars-academy-awards-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-matt-canavan-labor-liberal-coalition-ntwnfb

#Australianews #Australianpolitics #AnthonyAlbanese #AngusTaylor #Nationalparty #Australianeconomy #Australianimmigrationandasylum #TonyBurke #Laborparty #NewSouthWales #Victoria #NickVisser

“It turns out that it doesn’t take a regional war. Australian resilience, apart from its test at the hands of #OneNation populism, is being stressed by a medium-sized war far from our region. #AngusTaylor is in a poor position to criticise the government. He was the #ScottMorrison government minister who proudly assigned #Australian (#Petrol and #oil) reserves to the safekeeping of the USA.”

#PeterHarcher / #LNP / #Nationals / #MattCanavan <https://theage.com.au/politics/federal/matt-canavan-has-done-in-an-hour-what-angus-taylor-failed-to-do-in-a-month-20260313-p5oadr.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/33ddU>

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

#AngusTaylor #auspol #OilReserves

https://esdnews.com.au/factcheck-angus-taylor-misleads-on-oil-reserves-in-australia%EF%BF%BC/

Liberal Party Suppresses Election Review Amidst Controversy

Why is the Liberal Party hiding its 2025 election review? Find out why Peter Dutton's claims of defamation and fears of humiliation are stopping the report's release.

#LiberalParty, #ElectionReview, #PoliticalScandal, #AngusTaylor, #PeterDutton

https://newsletter.tf/liberal-party-hides-election-review-controversy/