{"id":357007,"date":"2026-01-28T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=357007"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:07:54","slug":"nationals-mp-colin-boyce-challenges-leader-david-littleproud-after-coalition-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=357007","title":{"rendered":"Nationals MP Colin Boyce Challenges Leader David Littleproud After Coalition Split"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Boyce, the member for Flynn, plans to move a spill motion against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=david-littleproud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Littleproud\">David Littleproud<\/a> when MPs return to Canberra next week, blaming leadership decisions for alienating supporters and risking &#8216;political suicide&#8217; without reuniting with the Liberals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge follows the Nationals&#8217; January 22 split over Labor&#8217;s hate speech laws, triggered by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bondi-beach-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bondi Beach Massacre\">deadly attack at Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Jewish festival<\/a>, which saw three Nationals senators vote against the bill and the frontbench resign from shadow ministry roles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Boyce pushes for change amid rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=one-nation-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"One Nation Party\">One Nation<\/a> support in polls, colleagues like Michael McCormack and Matt Canavan back Littleproud, who welcomes debate and defends the principled stand on free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyce, the member for Flynn, plans to move a spill motion against David Littleproud when MPs return to Canberra next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":220365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,35],"tags":[19408,18762,9562,15854],"class_list":["post-357007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-colin-boyce","tag-david-littleproud","tag-one-nation-party","tag-transport-canberra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357008,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357007\/revisions\/357008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}