Australian Liberal-National Coalition Reunites

The two party leaders in Australia’s main opposition political parties have agreed to resume the Australian Liberal-National Coalition Reunites movement.

It comes one week after the coalition of the two conservative parties, in place for many years, was broken up.

Local media reports that Liberal leader Sussan Ley plans to announce a new shadow cabinet made up of members from both parties at a press conference on Wednesday.

Tensions between the two parties reached a breaking point on Tuesday, when David Littleproud, head of the Nationals, acknowledged no agreements on crucial policy points.

Littleproud announced the coalition had split and reunited in recent years and that he hoped to team up with Ley by the time of the next election.

The poor election results for the Coalition earlier this month saw Ley replace Peter Dutton as Liberal leader, and Labor was immediately declared the winner of its second term in a landslide. The Liberals, she claims, will find their way back to the centre-right.

Recently, there has been tension in the relationship between the Liberals and Nationals, mainly due to disagreements over climate and energy issues, as regional communities are often more conservative.

The two parties, according to ABC, are said to have removed a promise to construct seven nuclear plants but are now working towards lifting the current national ban on nuclear power.

As part of the Coalition coming back together, policies have been agreed on regarding regional infrastructure construction, faster internet in remote areas, mobile network access there, and market measures to encourage grocery store competition, according to the ABC.

Since the 1940s, the Liberal-National partnership, which operates along changing agreements, has broken down and been begun again more than once. It has been almost four decades since the last time the Coalition was divided, in 1987.