{"id":707438,"date":"2026-06-01T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707438\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:58:09","slug":"australia-news-live-sydney-melbourne-house-prices-fall-trump-toughens-iran-peace-deal-conditions-ebola-cases-in-drc-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707438\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Sydney, Melbourne house prices fall; Trump toughens Iran peace deal conditions; Ebola cases in DRC rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals MP David Littleproud has said the election of former prime minister Tony Abbott as the new federal president of the Liberals is a \u201cgood thing\u201d for Angus Taylor, as the Coalition stares down the task of winning back popularity with voters amid record low polling.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky News this morning, Littleproud said: \u201cI think what Tony Abbott does is give a starch to Angus Taylor, and that cover and support, that structural support within the Liberal Party, and I think this is a good thing, to have that for Angus, to be able to have a party president that will be there shoulder to shoulder with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nationals MP David Littleproud.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/50c409fd7812705a9b355fd39622266f790ddf99.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Nationals MP David Littleproud.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Littleproud, who resigned as leader of the National Party in March, also responded to new polling by The Australian Financial Review that showed One Nation surging ahead of the Coalition \u2013 and overtaking Labor \u2013 in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he thought the shift to One Nation would be temporary, Littleproud said it would depend on how well the Coalition sold their policies to the Australian public in the lead-up to the next election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it depends on what we do \u2026 Australians [are] lashing out because they\u2019ve lost hope, they\u2019re going broke, and they\u2019re looking for something, they don\u2019t know what it is at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationals MP David Littleproud has said the election of former prime minister Tony Abbott as the new federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-707438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}