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Talk:Australian_Senate. Essentially, the dispute is about whether the Senators should primarily be listed (e.g. in the infobox) according to the group with which they were elected, or the parliamentary grouping in which they sit. The dispute boils down to two groups of Senators. Queensland Senators are fielded by and elected under the banner of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP), a merger between the Queensland Liberal and National parties. Formally, the LNP is the state branch of the Liberal Party in Queensland, but is also affiliated with the National Party. In federal Parliament, LNP Senators sit separately in the national Liberal and National groupings, are appointed to the Ministry on the basis of either their personal Liberal or National affiliation, and vote separately for the Liberal and National parliamentary party leadership. The second group is the Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion, who is the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate. As detailed in the article, the CLP is affiliated with both the national Liberal and National parties, Perhaps importantly, the Senate website distributes the LNP Senators between the Liberals and the Nationals, but describes Scullion as a member of the CLP, but Leader of the Nationals in the Senate.