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Asked last night about a possible Liberal/National alliance with One Nation, Jane Hume refused to reject the idea outright.
The most important is to get the primary vote up for the Liberal and National party … There are so many hypotheticals … I will say that the Coalition are determined and dedicated to present to the Australian public a platform that they can vote for …
There is no-one in the Coalition party room today that is telling us we need to expand the Coalition to include One Nation.
The message we sent in Farrer was that the teals vote with Greens, 70% of the time and for the people of Farrer that wasn’t going to represent their interests … We will always put our preferences where we think the national interests lies, where we think the interests of the electorate lies and that is what we did in Farrer.
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