David Littleproud announces resignation as Nationals leader
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/federal-politics-live-iran-albanese/106433228#live-blog-post-269402
David Littleproud announces resignation as Nationals leader
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/federal-politics-live-iran-albanese/106433228#live-blog-post-269402
28 Comments
No surprises here
And another one bites the dust at the Coalition
His one job was to fuck over the coalition.
Mission accomplished.
Should’ve gone far before the liberals forced Ley out.
Rats do leave sinking ships.
Wonder which mining/gas company will employ him.
Dafuuuuuq is the play here for Littleproud? Is he off to PHON as well? Who’s the new leader hes talking about? Didn’t he just survive a leadership spill a few weeks/month ago?
Coalition looking more and more like plain old ‘alition’ every passing week
“He’s reflected on some of his key policy contributions, including on nuclear energy and net zero.”
Hell of a legacy.
Not too surprising after that poll that had the Nats at 5.2% in Farrer.
About bloody time. What a drama-filled waste of space. A shocking self-destructive leader for the Nats.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out to your lobbying job 👋
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price inbound, eta 30 seconds….
Imagine if Joyce left PHON, came back to Nats and won the leadership vote.
The best leader of the Nationals the Labor party has ever had.
End of an error
Did no one read the blog post?
Hes keeping his seat in parliament just resigning as leader.
He was the last of the tail that wagged the LNP coalition. His last great victory was to remove an upitty woman from the liberal leadership.
Obviously once he had completed his quest, there was a chance for his fellow members to survey the damage, and it was so great he had to go too.
Confucius say “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”
Hooray! Snivelling little creep.
Why cause all the disruption with the Libs and then resign? FFS.
Smears shit on the walls
Refuses to elaborate
Leaves
Believes he’s represented the country well? That’s a laugh. Honestly made it a farce. Still waiting for any improvement to the Mallee electorate from Anne Webster (my former electorate). Nationals are happy to get the paycheck and grandstand with their Liberal counterparts, then pork barrel once they’re in.
He’s seen the polling, he realizes that he offed his patsy that did whatever he wanted to keep the Coalition together, which means that they got exactly what they wanted, and as a result will be in opposition for years.
Now it’s just a matter of waiting for a few election cycles and trying again when Labor is unelectable, say in the early 2030’s or whenever they realize the errors of their ways, or the Overton window swings so far to the right, he seems sort of leadership material again.
If the Nats had a shred of common sense, they would work out what regional cities and farmers need that actively leans into climate change and soil degradation, and help farmers and regional cities thrive in this current and near future situation, like energy independence by getting someone to build electric farming equipment (where possible) so they don’t need $2.50/litre diesel, and provide incentives to commit some of their farms to solar and wind generation to power their farming equipment and their local communities, fund CSIRO properly for farm science in a low water environment, develop new regional industries around rare earth mining that actually returns a HUGE return to the Australian tax payer. You know, common sense. In 100 years, the idea that there will be any diesel anything is ridiculous. Farmers need energy independence today. Regional cities need growth and jobs. It can be done, but not with the Nat’s Trumpist and hateful policies. They need to get back to their roots, and take their local communities along for the ride, rather than being Barnaby Joyce or some blithering idiot who thinks climate change is a hoax. Farmers know weather. Don’t argue with a thermometer or a rain gauge.
Otherwise, the Greens may work it out for themselves, and wipe the floor with what very little remains of the Nats. I do not think either party will see this as common sense, and I say that as someone who is more aligned with the Greens than the Nats, and as someone who lives in a regional city.
Albanese claims another leader’s scalp after Ley by literally doing nothing. By my count now, that’s 4.
Today on Days of our Lives….
Living up to his name: Little to be proud of.
So he just stuck around causing chaos to make sure Ley got the axe, then once she was gone, time to pack it in? Jeez, what a shitbird.
Ley and Littleproud gone in the space of a few weeks. The Coalition is an absolute shambles. If Angus Taylor is the best they’ve got then they are toast at the next election
And when Littleproud saw the breadth of his incompetence, he wept, for there were no more worlds to fuck up.
And nothing of value was lost