Nationals who defied shadow cabinet would sit on backbench for six months under Coalition peace deal
by Dan Jervis-Bardy Chief political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#739JG)
David Littleproud says party will take our time' to consider Sussan Ley's offer
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The three Nationals senators who defied the shadow cabinet to oppose Labor's hate speech laws would be forced to sit on the backbench for six months under Sussan Ley's offer to the Nationals to reunite the Coalition.
The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, said the country party would take our time" to consider the Liberals' proposal, leaving a potential reunion of the two parties hanging in the balance at the start of a new sitting fortnight in Canberra.
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