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  • A little more detail on how big this is. Since 1980, the Liberals and Nationals have been so tied together that we very often call them “the Coalition”. Our news media reports on election results by saying how many seats the combined Coalition has won. In the state of Queensland, the two parties are fully merged into the Liberal National Party, or LNP, and the term LNP is sometimes unofficially used to refer to the Coalition elsewhere. In federal politics, LNP members choose whether they sit in the Liberal party room or the National party room. Peter Dutton was a Liberal-aligned Queensland LNP member.

    For Germans, you can kinda think of this as equivalent to CDU/CSU splitting, with the main difference being that instead of different states, the Nationals represent rural areas and the Liberals represent urban and suburban areas. But it’s fuzzy and they do sometimes softly compete against each other.

    Also quick note: they’re called the Liberals because they ostensibly stand for individual liberty. Personal freedoms etc. But they’ve evolved into crony capitalism and conservative culture wars.