Live: David LittleProud Coy on if he asked to become a deputy opposition leader in coalition negotiation

National Leader David Littlepoud has rejected questions he did not act with compassion in his negotiations with Susan Law About a new coalition agreement.

Ley was chosen as a liberal leader last Tuesday. She hurried back to Albury to be with her mother, Angela Baybrooks, side in the days before she died.

Asked if it was appropriate to break the coalition while Ley did funeral preparations, LittleProud said ABC News Breakfast He worked on Ley’s time frame, not his.

“In fact, they were initiated after her mother’s death by her and her office, to continue and we only went in good faith that Sussan Ley wanted to do that,” said LittleProud.

“We didn’t need to hurry and we made sure that we respected the personal circumstances in which Sussan Ley found himself.”

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Prime minister Anthony Albanese has also become a member of the NSW prime minister when offering his condolences to the family of one Man found dead in a mid -north coast -house yesterday.

“It is devastating to hear the tragic news that a man died in a home struck by flooding on the New South Wales Mid North Coast,” he said.

“The thoughts of all Australians are currently with his loved ones and the community.”

There are several emergency warnings for the flooded New South Wales Mid North, where residents scrap for more rain and heavy weather.

The state and federal governments have activated disaster support for more than a dozen municipal areas in the Hunter and Mid North Coast.

Minister of Nood Management Kristy McBain says that the federal government is ready to use further help if necessary.

“We will also have an ADF search and salvation in the area. We have also already started the regulations for the restoration of the emergency recovery for 16 affected local council areas, so we will continue to work with NSW on other requirements they can have,” she told ABC’s Radio National Breakfast.

She warned that the region was not yet the worst of the weather.

If you want to follow ABC’s flood reporting, we have a separate live blog.

Scars Was also asked for a leaked letter then in advance that the Nationals ultimately split the coalition.

The letter, published by news.com.au, was sent from Senator Bridget McKenzie to liberal senator Michaelia Cash only a few days after Jacinta Nampijinpa -Prijs Drooped from the Nationals.

“Depending on the outcome of the negotiations between our two parties in the coming weeks, the National Senate Party Room will have to consider our position with regard to sitting with the liberal party as a coalition in the Senate room,” wrote McKenzie, According to the News Corp report.

The National Leader denied the letter for the fallback Was premeditated.

“None of these discussions or negotiations started until Sussan Ley was chosen and the decision is not of an individual. It is from the party room, the collective of the party room,” he said ABC News Breakfast.

But he emphasized that he has not yet seen the report.

National Leader David LittleProud Will not say whether he asked to become a deputy opposition leader during the fatal negotiations for a new coalition agreement.

Talk about ABC News Breakfast This morning the National leader was asked if he had made the requirement, As reported for the first time in the nine newspapers.

“I’m not going to comment on that. I don’t think that should be something in public,” he said.

“These are private negotiations between Sussan Ley and myself, I don’t intend to comment.”

A grill of coalition schemes is that when in opposition it is the liberal representative, not the National leader who becomes the deputy opposition leader.

It is different than when the coalition is in the government, where the leader of the National Vice Prime Minister becomes.

Crowded if that was one of the bottlenecks, he insisted that this was not the case and repeated the only one the nationals asked for Warranty for four important policy measures, including nuclear energy and the regional Future Fund.

But the liberals, including from Sussan Ley’s office, have prevented the demand for requirements for the front of the nationals may speak against policy decisions of the Shadow Cabinet played a greater role in the split.

LittleProud argued that this was not the case.

“There were a number of requests and shadow cabinet positions that were sent in writing to Sussan Ley and she sent a reaction back and her response around the Solidarity Cabinet was satisfactory and reasonable and honest.”

Sussan Ley’s office Says National Senator Bridget McKenzie False claims made during an appearance ABCs 7.30 Last night.

Senator McKenzie had told the program that the coalition was split because the opposition leader could not give the subjects the guarantees they were looking for on four important policy measures.

Asked if the issue of the solidarity of the shadow cabinet was Also an important issue in the negotiations, as the liberal leader had claimed, McKenzie said: “It was only that four policy”.

During the program, the Ley’s office delivered a text at 7.30 am -host Sarah Ferguson who disputed the denominations of McKenzie.

The text said: “It is not correct to suggest that the shadow cabinet -solidarity was not a bottleneck. We have in writing that it was a requirement for their leader’s office for us.”

Ley’s office text a second time and added about Senator McKenzie: “Her language was deliberately to make it sound like it was about the policy. That is simply not correct.”

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Hiya friends. Your friendly political blogger, Courtney Gould, Register for a duty. I hope you have a great Thursday so far.

So what’s on the agenda today? It is likely that there will be more reaction Until the disintegration of the coalition – especially in the aftermath of the 7.30 last night (more about that).

Elsewhere it looks like a mixed bag. So why don’t we just jump into the day and we look where it takes us.

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