AdvertisementPoliticsFederalPolitical leadership Ley gives Littleproud one-week ultimatum to re-form Coalition Paul Sakkal Updated January 30, 2026 — 11:16am ,first published 10:45am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Got it Share A A AOpposition Leader Sussan Ley will set a hard deadline for Nationals leader David Littleproud to re-form the Coalition before she goes it alone with a Liberal-only opposition. Sussan Ley has given David Littleproud a timeline for the Coalition reforming before she announces a Liberal-only opposition frontbench. Ley added that the “Nationals’ decision to leave the Coalition was both regrettable and unnecessary” but that the “door remains open” to a Coalition agreement. But there is a growing view in the Liberal Party that Littleproud and much of his party room is not for turning.