The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the Country Party, but adopted the name National Country Party in 1975, changed to National Party of Australia in 1982, and became The Nationals for 2003. Federally, in New South Wales, and to an extent Victoria, it has generally been the minor party in the traditional coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia in government. In Opposition it has worked in formal Coalition or separately, but generally in co-operation with the Liberal Party and it predecessor, the United Australia Party. It was the major coalition party in Queensland between 1957 and 2008, when it merged with the junior Queensland Division of the Liberal Party of Australia to form the Liberal National Party � an organisation dominated by ex-Nationals.
The party's federal parliamentary leader since 3 December 2007, following the coalition's defeat at the 2007 federal election, is Warren Truss.[1}.
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