Matt Canavan says ‘divorce’ the best approach after Liberal flake

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Matt Canavan says ‘divorce’ the best approach after Liberal flake

The Coalition split just got messier, after Nationals Senator Matt Canavan was ditched by Liberal leader Ted O’Brien on live TV.

Today host Karl Stefanovic said Mr O’Brien had agreed to appear alongside Mr Canavan on the show out of courtesy, but bailed just minutes before the pair were set to go on air.

We asked Deputy Liberal Leader Ted O’Brien on the show last night, and he agreed this morning, out of courtesy,” Mr Stefanovic said.

“We told him Matt Canavan was coming on to all seemed okay. And then 20 minutes ago, his team, team rang saying he won’t come on with Canavan.

“I mean, you can’t make it up. It’s like maths.”

Camera IconMatt Canavan was told Mr O’Brien had agreed to accompany him on the show out of courtesy but bailed 20 minutes before the segment was to air. Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire Credit: News Corp Australia

Mr Canavan took the snub in stride, declaring: “I don’t know, I definitely don’t have a problem with Ted or anybody in the Parliament.

“My number one focus is always about what I can do for people.”

The Senator, who recently lost out on a challenge for leadership of the Nationals party, said he had spent the night before away from his family to “help the *********** people”.

“I do think that this is the best thing for the *********** people, we need to take up the fight on, on issues for people that are struggling,” he said.

“I think we’ve held ourselves back a bit as the Nationals party in the past few years, we haven’t fought enough.”

Mr Canavan declared the relationship between the parties was strictly “business” and not a “marriage”, and said the Coalition split shouldn’t be referred to as a divorce.

“(Divorce) is very dramatic, but this is simply a business arrangement between two political parties,” Mr Canavan said.

“We are separate political parties. We will now fight separately within the in the parliament, but we’ll work together where we can as well.”

He continued, saying that the “best approach for both parties right now is to pause”.

“The Liberal Party have have a lot of issues to work out subsequent to the election, which was a terrible result. I just think this is the best for both parties that we work those things out separately.”

Other critics have weighed in on the dissolution of the century-long partnership.

Former Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader John Howard pleaded for the Coalition reunite, declaring their partnership “the glory days” for both parties.

Speaking to Andrew Bolt on Sky on Tuesday night, Mr Howard said he was “very deeply sorry” that the separation had happened.

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“I urge both parties to work overtime to put the Coalition back together again because all the history of Australia suggests that the glory days of the Liberal Party and the National Party, the old Country Party, are when they are working together in government

“My experience as a Liberal leader and as a Coalition Prime Minister is that when you have a strong Coalition and plenty of trust, you can resolve many policy differences.”

This comes after the Coalition Party — the most successful political union — made a shocking decision to split on Tuesday.

Speaking to Paul Murray last night, the Nationals leader David Littleproud was questioned on what had gone so wrong.

“With the circumstances that Sussan (Ley) had, in terms of wanting to be able to announce a shadow cabinet which meant a Coalition agreement had to be done in the coming days,” he said.

“But not being able to give us that comfort or guarantee that those policies that we’re looking at could be guaranteed because she wanted to go through a longer ******* of policy formation that we could not sign up to because these are hard fought wins that change the lives of people in regional Australia”.

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