Stone was the last of the old-style Canberra mandarins, serving eight Australian treasurers, from Snedden to Keating.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will confront her party’s electoral thrashing and announce a second, deeper review of the Liberal Party’s mission and purpose.

The National Party of Australia, currently led by David Littleproud, has taken pride in representing regional and rural communities across Australia for over 100 years. While the party has never ...

Australia's conservative Liberal-National coalition - the nation's main opposition political party - has split after a partnership lasting almost 80 years.

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The Liberal Party is the centre-right party in opposition. It is in a long-term coalition with the National Party of Australia.

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For 102 years now (apart from a brief and steamy affair with Joh Bjelke Peterson in 1987) the country-based National Party has been married to the urbanite Liberal Party.

Officially, the LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and an affiliate of the National Party. Of the 16 LNP MPs elected at the recent election, 10 would sit with the Liberal Party ...

The Nationals once got their way because they argued their corner and didn’t make empty threats. Now the junior Coalition party is reduced to a juvenile outfit.