It actually happened.

Liberals and nationals are breaking up, ending decades of politically accessible partnerships that are necessary for conservatives to hold power.

National leader David Littleproud told Liberal leader Sussan Ley Tuesday morning that the country would not sign a new coalition agreement.

The first and obvious question is why.

The simple answer is that the Liberals do not accept the need for nationals to maintain four key policy positions: support for nuclear power, a $20 billion regional future fund, breakup power for supermarkets, and minimal regional mobile and internet access.

Nationals will adopt policies last semester with liberals led by Peter Dutton and are not ready to conduct cases with Ley's responsible.

"A reasonable demand was made to trustworthy partners and was rejected," National Senate leader Bridget McKenzie said in a press conference with Little Proud of the Parliament Building.

A senior liberal said the fifth need that the National did not mention in a press conference: insisting that even members of the shadow cabinet could cross the floor to vote against their own side.

Sources said the position was “untenable.”

The Liberals did not reject the national policy requirements because they had any particular objection to them. After all, these measures were Dutton's election a few weeks ago.

Ray refuses instead because she is not ready to lock the liberals any Positions are certainly not in binding alliance agreements.

It was her commitment to her colleagues immediately after winning the freelance leadership.

Each policy, including zero net and nuclear, is under review. She said there would be no "captain's phone number".

The reason for the split tells a story about the very different positions encountered by liberals and nationals.

Nationals felt bold last semester after winning internal debates about nuclear and supermarket divestment and expressed no case in a congressional referendum.

The party held all seats on May 3, although it failed to win the Calare area of ​​New South Wales, which was transformed from the National to the Independence of Andrew Gee.

Nationals may be allocated on certain policies, such as net zero, but Littleproud's team determines its representative and whose representatives it is so willing to blow up the league and seize front desk positions (and the salary that comes with it).

Liberals need to figure this out, by contrast.

Ley and her senior colleagues want to stay in a league.

But division may give liberals some good, providing some clear air when they struggle not only with policy, purpose, and direction.

Ley has no task to appease his own division of the party, so no one can easily reach the shadow cabinet.

Of course, the Liberal Party and the Nationals have no number of people who form the government themselves.

At some point, power needs to be regained.

How and when it happened is anyone's guess.