Nsw Nationals To Fight Merger Calls
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday July 16, 2008
THE NSW National Party will resist calls for a merger with the Liberal Party, despite the option being canvassed as a survival measure in a report to be released today.
The report on the Nationals' future, co-written by the party's former federal leader John Anderson, will warn it faces extinction unless it merges or is radically reformed.The two parties are merging in Queensland, albeit with infighting, but the chairwoman of the NSW Nationals, Christine Ferguson, said there was no desire to do the same south of the border.
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