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Secret figures show Liberal party’s ageing membership in freefall in NSW and Victoria • May 31, 2025, 4:18 AM ET (The Guardian)
Coalition elders hope for reunion • May 21, 2025, 10:48 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
The Coalition is over: Nationals split with the Liberal Party after 80 years • May 20, 2025, 6:14 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Live: New shadow ministry will be appointed from Liberal Party, after Coalition abandoned • May 20, 2025, 1:31 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Nationals call it quits on decades-long coalition with Liberals • May 19, 2025, 11:58 PM ET (ABC News (Australia))

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Also Known As Parti Libéral du Canada • LP
Date 1867 - present
Areas Of Involvement liberalism • left
Related People Justin Trudeau • Wilfrid Laurier • W.L. Mackenzie King • Mark Carney • Michael Ignatieff • Pierre Elliott Trudeau • Stéphane Dion • Paul Martin • René Lévesque • Jean Chrétien • Robert Baldwin • Jean Lesage • Walter Lockhart Gordon • Louis Saint Laurent • John Napier Turner

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