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Nationals frontbencher Bridget McKenzie has insisted her party never made free votes for cabinet members a condition of returning to Coalition with the Liberals, as the two parties draw closer to a deal.
McKenzie also took a shot at Liberal MPs who were giving her and her colleagues free advice. She told Channel Seven's Sunrise:
There are many Liberal MPs who want to give us gratuitous advice about how to run our party room. I'm happy to give them membership forms if they'd like to join it. But a coalition works best when everybody respects the independence of both parties.
That wasn't put to the room.
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