For the second time in three years, David Littleproud’s Nationals have ratted on the Liberal Party and staked out a policy position that has potentially dramatic consequences for the senior Coalition party.

On November 27, 2022, Littleproud, then Nationals MP Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and the rest of the party room, announced the Nationals would formally oppose the Voice to parliament.

It would be almost six months before Peter Dutton announced the Liberals would take the same position but the result was all but inevitable. It’s now all but inevitable now that the Liberals will dump support for Australia to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Nationals leader David Littleproud during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

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