National Party would stop Turnbull from action on Climate Change
Nationals would rein Turnbull’s progressive instincts THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 06, 2015 Sid Maher National Affairs Editor, Canberra NATIONALS MPs will demand a written guarantee from Malcolm Turnbull that he will not pursue an emissions trading scheme, gay marriage or backtrack on asylum-seeker policy if he topples Tony Abbott to become prime minister.
As Liberal leadership tensions continued, Nationals leader Warren Truss declared yesterday that the Coalition agreement was a pact between the Prime Minister and himself, and a change of leader would require a new agreement.
As Nationals MPs met for the first time this year, in Wodonga in northern Victoria, it emerged that Mr Truss would face backbench pressure to require the moderate Mr Turnbull to provide written assurances on key policies as part of any new agreement if he won the Liberal leadership……..
Some Nationals MPs have privately indicated they would have trouble working with Mr Turnbull, the Communications Minister, if he regained the leadership…..tp://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/nationals-would-rein-turnbulls-progressive-instincts/story-fn59niix-1227209730141
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