Talk:Liberal National Party of Queensland

Old comment
Just a heads up that the National Party of Australia and the Liberal Party of Australia may merge in the coming weeks in Queensland, the proposed name is the Liberal National Party. Cheers, Wiki Townsvillian 09:46, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Article title
Should the title of this article be Liberal National Party? It seems that there are no other 'Liberal National' parties in Wikipedia, so shouldn't this article occupy that space? -- Lester  00:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The "Liberal National Party" was also the name of a significant British political party between 1931 and 1948 when it changed the name to "National Liberal Party" (which was also the name used by a different group of Liberals between 1916 & 1923). It was arguably the single most important third party in the UK in the twentieth century, forming a key part of the 1930s National (i.e. coalition) Governments with its leader holding most of the highest offices at one point or another. A Google search for "Liberal National Party" brings up hits for both the British and Australian parties in the top ten. Until two days ago Liberal National Party had been redirecting to the UK party for years. It now points to the "National Liberal Party" disambiguation page. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

The Paragraph 'party in opposition'
This paragraph was marked as 'citation needed'. It seems a pretty logically nonsensical application of the tag, IMO. I can be a bit pedantic, I suppose...

It's a bit difficult to work out just why this was so tagged - unless it was done before the internal links were done. The phrase "has 25 members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, the unicameral house of the Parliament of Queensland." is verifiably (notably, too) factual, as visiting the internal links (to official Qld Govt articles) demonstrates.

So how do we cite "The party is currently in opposition" - find the newspaper article that reported that the party lost the election - but they were then 2 separate parties under 2 separate names ... The party IS in opposition precisely BECAUSE another party IS in government - as the official Govt articles state...

If no comments here in a while, I will consider either removing the citation request entirely, or at least moving it to the "The party is currently in opposition" phrase.

FoolesTroupe (talk) 04:07, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The tag originally said "fact|now" and I think the objection might have been to the use of the word "currently", which is usually a bad word to use on Wikipedia, or to the inclusion of information which will become out of date. I'll look at rewording it. Peter Ballard (talk) 04:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Deputy Leaders
Fiona Simpson has been named as the inaugural deputy leader of the LNP.

Simpson was NEVER the deputy leader and McArdle was the orginal deputy leader back in 2008. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.109.17.24 (talk) 08:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Clive Palmer
How much of a mention should he get in this article? It is obvious he requires at a minimum a sentence or two with the number of WP:RS available, but how much of a mention should he get? Timeshift (talk) 10:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

See also: Clive Palmer
It's extremely inappropriate to imply that the LNP has significant links with Mr Palmer in this manner. Having him in the see also section implies that the party is subsidy of his business interests, which is partisan propaganda from political opponents that is contested by the LNP. By all means his link to the party is worth mentioning, but in this manner it's entirely out of proportion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.243.181 (talk) 03:32, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Ideology and political position
Why have political ideology and political position been removed from this article?

Semi-protected edit request on 5 March 2015
Please change the spelling of the link to conservatism as it is currently incorrect.

The Liberal National Party (LNP) is a 'consevative' political party in Queensland, Australia.

CustomTomato (talk) 10:38, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done with thanks, Nici  Vampire  Heart  10:51, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit request for misspelling in 7th para in History section
Parliament has been misspelled in para starting "In 1992...".

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Why not National Liberal Party?
Why isn't it called the National Liberal Party since the National or the Country Party was the dominant non-Labor party before the merger. 122.106.83.10 (talk) 02:27, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it's because at a national level there are a lot more Libs than Nats, and the people behind the merger had national goals? HiLo48 (talk) 02:43, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Federally the coalition is called the Liberal-National Coalition, so just calling it the Liberal National Party of Queensland fits it better, and also you could consider it a more liberal National party if you read it that way. Pilot Eighty-Seven (talk) 23:01, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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Dutton and Littleproud
Why are you disputing that this is the first time both Liberal and National leaders are from Queensland at the same time and both had been elected as LNP members?  Marc nut 1996  (talk) 11:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Because their individual articles don't say that. Littleproud's only mentions the LNP once, in parentheses. Dutton's says a little more, but all the emphasis is that he is part of and leader of the Liberal Party. If all you said was that they are both from Queensland it could be OK, although I'm not sure why we would need that parochialism. Remember that the LNP as a combined party is a specifically Queensland thing, not really known to non-politically minded people outside that state. You need to make things clear to non-Queenslanders (i.e. the rest of the world) how this actually works, probably in Dutton's and Littlepround's own articles. 21:13, 2 March 2023 (UTC)