The member for Flynn declared the party was \u201ccommitting political suicide\u201d by ending the Coalition. His move comes amid what he calls a \u201cright-flank onslaught\u201d from One Nation, for whom support has surged<\/a> in the latest Guardian Essential poll.<\/p>\n The pollster and former Liberal party strategist Tony Barry writes that the Nationals and Liberals need to focus on economic management and housing \u2013 especially in urban seats<\/a> \u2013 if they want to stop bleeding votes to One Nation and the teals.<\/p>\n Top news<\/p>\n Expectations grow for interest rate hike next week after Australia\u2019s inflation jumps to 3.8%<\/a><\/p>\n Historic heatwave expected to break records in NSW and Queensland with temperatures over 45C in regional towns<\/a><\/p>\n Police should \u2018throw the book\u2019 at man charged with Perth Invasion Day explosive device incident, Albanese says<\/a><\/p>\n Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight amid threats from climate crisis and AI<\/a><\/p>\n Marilyn Manson: US judge reopens sexual assault case against musician<\/a><\/p>\n Stephen Colbert announces date of final episode of The Late Show<\/a><\/p>\n In video Thousands of lion\u2019s mane jellyfish have washed on to Melbourne beaches<\/a>. Photographer and ocean swimmer Rodney Dekker captured video of the incredible sight<\/a>.<\/p>\n What they said \u2026 \u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n The US House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has turned up the heat on Kristi Noem, telling Donald Trump they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary<\/a> if the president did not fire her after the weekend killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n Full Story \u2018The opposition is in La-La land\u2019: Malcolm Turnbull on the Coalition split<\/a><\/p>\n The Coalition has collapsed for the second time in eight months and Sussan Ley\u2019s leadership could follow at any moment. Malcolm Turnbull is not sure who is best placed to take on the challenge, saying \u201cthe pool of talent is not enormous at the moment\u201d.<\/p>\n The former prime minister speaks to Nour Haydar about what went wrong between the Liberals and Nationals<\/a> and what he thinks it will take to resuscitate his party.<\/p>\n Listen to the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before bed read Who best to let the US know how the country looks from the outside? Marina Hyde has cleared her inbox to make space for death threats and exercised her right to free speech. The top line: \u201cYou look like what your president likes to call a \u2018shithole country\u2019.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Daily word game Today\u2019s starter word is: POI. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up<\/p>\n If you would like to receive this Afternoon Update to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here<\/a>, or start your day with a curated breakdown of the key stories you need to know with our Morning Mail newsletter<\/a>. You can follow the latest in US politics by signing up for This Week in Trumpland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good afternoon. Colin Boyce will move a motion to spill the Nationals leadership at a party room meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-438691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jellyfish](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769607009_659_1350.jpg\")
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View image in fullscreen<\/a>\u2018Commander at large\u2019 Gregory Bovino flanked by US federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this month. Photograph: Octavio Jones\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n![\"Wordiply](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2748.jpg\")
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