Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes:
The Nationals Central Council has voted 149 to 1 against to move ahead with the formation of new conservative party in Queensland. QLD Nationals Leader Lawrence Springborg has been relentless is his drive to bring about the new conservative political force in Queensland which he believes is the only hope of ousting the long serving State Labor government.
Despite hostile opposition within some sections of the Liberal Party the National’s Council, rightly so has voted to conduct a ballot of the Party’s 10,000 Queensland members to find out if they support the move or not..
Members will be asked to vote on whether they support the “consolidation of like-minded, non-labor forces into a single political entity in Queensland” according to National’s Queensland Senator Barnaby Joyce (pictured) who enthusiastically supports the push for the new party.
The State Liberal party had side stepped the issue a week ago when instead of supporting a motion to conduct a ballot of their own members they referred the matter to the Federal Party.
However 4 federal liberal MP’s lead by Federal Member for Ryan Michael Johnson have defied the Liberal’s National leadership by deciding to hold their own ballots allowing party members in their electorates to vote on supporting the move or not.
Michael Johnson (pictured) and his fellow Liberal MP’s must be congratulated for this move. Liberal Leader Brendan Nelson has been traveling Australia on a “listening tour”. Why would any Liberal MP not be agreeable to giving rank and file Liberal party members the opportunity to express their opinion on the merger / formation of a new conservative party in QLD?
Hasn’t it got through to some Liberal party MP’s that a major reason they got thrown out of government by the Australian people was because they’d stopped listening to the people?
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