Of all the hills to die on, this has to be the strangest. A major political party is coming apart owing to a thousand-year war on the other side of the planet that has zero bearing upon it.
Sussan Ley has pleaded with the Nationals to stay in the Coalition after the country party’s frontbench team walked out of her shadow cabinet over antisemitism laws, leaving her leadership and the future of the conservative movement in peril.
Nationals leader David Littleproud and his entire frontbench quit the shadow ministry after the Opposition Leader accepted the resignations of their colleagues Bridget McKenzie, Susan McDonald and Ross Cadell earlier on Wednesday.
