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Seven the ‘magic number’ but senior National pushes back on idea of federal LNP
A day after a senior Liberal called on the party to shelve talks of a split a report has shed shed some light on the disaffected chatter taking place within the Coalition.
A report in The Australia suggested Liberals frustrated by climate and energy policy are aware it would only take seven MPs to switch allegiances to the Nationals to give the junior partner the balance of power within the Coalition.
It comes as other MPs raise the possibility of merging the two parties into one federal body, as happened in the Queensland division in 2008.
But senior Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie doesn’t think that would be a good idea.
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