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Liberals to meet this afternoon to discuss National Party demands
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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5/24/2025
The Liberal party will meet this afternoon to discuss its position on the National party's four policy demands. Both parties have agreed to restart negotiations, just days after the nationals quit the coalition.
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It's been a week of developments on this, will they, won't they get back together.
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The latest is that the Liberal Party will hold another meeting, the second since this
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agreement to restart negotiations.
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Today, it will be held online at 1pm today, this meeting of the Liberal Party room, where
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they will discuss this list of four policy demands from their former coalition partner
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in the Nationals.
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Those policies are nuclear energy, the $20 billion regional future fund, the divestiture
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powers for supermarkets, as well as improved phone and internet services in rural and regional
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Australia.
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The Liberal Party will today consider each of those four policies, and if they can reach
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an agreement as to whether they will back those, which is what the National Party has
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been calling for, and if they can't reach an agreement today on those four areas, or some
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of them, then they will decide on a process about how to continue those discussions going
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forward.
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Both parties are keen to see these negotiations progress and want a resolution sooner rather
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than later, as long as they can both achieve what they want.
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In terms of how this process has unfolded, on Tuesday, we saw this decision from the Nationals
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to part ways with the Liberal Party.
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Then yesterday, this agreement to restart those negotiations.
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There's been a lot of contributions as to how this process has unfolded.
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Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has also added his words to that, speaking to the Insiders
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podcast.
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I think this holding a gun to the Liberal Party's head, which is what the Nats are doing, is
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really, really unwise.
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It's stupid politically, because if Susan Lee agrees to it, then people will say, there you
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go again, the Liberals are doing, you know, the tail's wagging the dog, the Liberals are doing
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the Nationals bidding.
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There's a lot of disquiet within both parties about this process and how the other side
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of the equation has managed it.
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Both leaders trying to frame this agreement to at least progress those discussions as a
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win for them and pointing the blame or the fact that it's suggesting that the other side
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of the equation has been the one to offer concessions here, regardless of the outcome.
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And it looks likely that there will be an agreement to do with nuclear policy in less changes
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than what was proposed before the election, but the agreement to remove the moratorium on
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nuclear power.
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Regardless of that, though, both leaders won't be able to, neither leader will be able to emerge
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unscathed from this.
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Thank you very much.
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