SYDNEY: Australia’s conservative opposition coalition reunited today after the junior partner National Party severed ties last month with the Liberal Party over its decision to back government hate speech laws drafted in the wake of the Bondi massacre.
“The coalition is back together and looking to the future, not to the past,” Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley said alongside National Party leader David Littleproud in a media conference televised from Canberra.
The coalition split, the second in less than a year, was triggered after Australia’s parliament passed the centre-left Labor government’s anti-hate laws in the wake of the mass shooting that killed 15 in December.