The Nationals federal president Kay Hull on why they split from the Liberal Party | May 20, 2025 - video Dailymotion

Federal president of The Nationals, Kay Hull, speaks on the Nationals splitting from the Liberals and the Coalition in Wagga on May 20, 2025.

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00:00My role is as a party president and it is my view that the party room that we

00:06see that I have sat in that Michael sits in and that I preside over with respect

00:11to being the federal president has no conflict within it. There is no conflict

00:17in the nationals room. We are there every single one of us or these guys are there

00:23every single one of them plus the the branches and organization that I

00:27represent as president. We are all there for one purpose. That purpose is to

00:33ensure the sustainability, the opportunities, the prosperity and living

00:39standards for rural, regional and remote people. There is no conflict. We don't have

00:45city people sitting in our party room. It's about there is no conflict on what we

00:49stand for. This is not about us needing to have a full rethink. We understand what

00:55our policies are. The party room has met. They have agreed on those policies as

01:00Michael has indicated and also agreed to re to investigate other issues of concern

01:07that were raised during this last election. But we do we actually won the

01:13election for our people that voted for us. We won those seats back. I feel that we

01:19need to ensure that we are not taken off on a different pathway of trying to

01:25reassess where we are, where our values are. Our values are very clear. They're in the

01:29party room. They're not that there's no conflict. And so we need to be

01:35accountable and go strongly forward with the views of rural, regional, remote

01:40Australians and hold them and hold the Labour government accountable. That is our

01:45role. That is what we've just been elected to do. That is what every member was

01:48returned to do and seats were transitioned to return to do. It is our

01:53responsibility to stay firm, to stay focused and to hold this Labour

01:58government to account. And I support Michael in every which way that he

02:03intends to do that. And this this decision today, as he said, has not been

02:07taken lightly, but it is decision that has been taken. And now we move positively

02:12forward and we're on the march to go and do that representation and also hear and

02:17listen to those in rural, regional, remote communities as to what it is that that is

02:22in addition to their issues that they have in those in those areas. So thank you

02:28very much.