We said this might happen – and it has. The Nationals are leaving the Coalition.

Deputy leader Kevin Hogan announced in an interview with Stephanie Dalzell on Afternoon Briefing yesterday that the Nationals may pull out of the Coalition agreement.

And they have done it. David Littleproud said the Nationals have not been able to come to an agreement with the Liberals under Sussan Ley – so they are ‘having a break’.

Littleproud:

We have got to a position that the National Party will sit alone on a principle basis,” he said.

So 80 years of Coalition agreements are DONE. For now.