{"id":44734,"date":"2026-07-05T20:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/44734\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:48:35","slug":"we-dont-want-to-be-part-of-coalition-with-one-nation-senior-liberal-mp-dan-tehan-shuts-door-on-conservative-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/44734\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We don\u2019t want to be part of coalition with One Nation\u2019: Senior Liberal MP Dan Tehan shuts door on conservative alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Coalition\u2019s manager of opposition business Dan Tehan has declared the party does not want to be part of an alliance with One Nation.<\/p>\n

Mr Tehan made the comments during a tense ABC interview on Sunday in which he was pressed on whether he would support a post-election coalition involving One Nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want to be part of is a Liberal Party and a National Party that, in coalition, runs this country again,\u201d Mr Tehan said.<\/p>\n

When asked directly whether he would consider any arrangement with One Nation, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s a no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a Coalition \u2013 Liberal Party, National Party \u2013 and it\u2019s not even being talked about,\u201d Mr Tehan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want to be part of a coalition with One Nation. We want to be part of a coalition with the Liberal Party and the National Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments come amid deepening divisions within the Coalition over how to respond to One Nation\u2019s rapid rise in the polls.<\/p>\n

Recent modelling has suggested One Nation could win as many as 63 seats if an election were held today, while the Liberals could lose as many as 40 seats.<\/p>\n

The latest Sky News \/ YouGov<\/a> poll also found that 46 per cent of people who voted for the Coalition in 2025 would now vote for One Nation.<\/p>\n

As Pauline Hanson surges in the polls, One Nation senators have been left baffled as to why Liberal and National MPs keep attacking them<\/a> rather than Labor.<\/p>\n

Liberal and Nationals MPs have repeatedly criticised One Nation, as disgruntled conservative voters turn from the Coalition to Pauline Hanson\u2019s party.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with SkyNews.com.au, One Nation Senators Sean Bell and Tyron Whitten said the Coalition was focusing on the wrong political opponent.<\/p>\n

Senators Bell and Whitten said the decline of the Coalition had been \u201csad\u201d to watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Matt Canavan got anointed, I was sort of, you know, almost a little excited for them,\u201d Mr Whitten said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, they’re going to finally get our side of politics back together \u2026 But the first thing he did was attack us. I thought, what are you doing, man? The enemy is over there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, \u2018Wow, you are not going to win friends with that\u2019. That is not what people want to hear at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Bell said that despite the Coalition\u2019s attacks, One Nation remained focused on holding the Albanese government to account.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so focused on the government, on the policies and the destruction the Labor government is doing,\u201d Mr Bell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were there \u2026 and then suddenly we\u2019re copping fire from the other side. Surely for the greater interest of the country, we could work on taking down Anthony Albanese.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Bell said that conservative parties should work together, but suggested the Liberal-National Coalition had its own internal turmoil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always say it\u2019s pretty simple. Conservative parties preference each other, Labor, Greens, Teals go last, everything else sorts itself out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the Coalition starts talking to us about working together, they should probably talk to themselves about working together.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause right now \u2026 it appears there\u2019s a fair bit of division going on there. I think we\u2019re just lucky that we\u2019re working together as a strong united team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coalition\u2019s manager of opposition business Dan Tehan has declared the party does not want to be part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,4917,4920,21,4919,17344,13869,3965,24586,1955,1926,34134],"class_list":["post-44734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-auspol","tag-australian-politics","tag-austrlia","tag-coalition","tag-conservative","tag-dan-tehan","tag-liberal-party","tag-national-party","tag-one-nation","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-senior-liberal-mp-rules-out-one-nation-deal-as-conservative-tensions-deepen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}