A profile of the Australian Nationals party

The Nationals party is one of the great survivors of Australian politics priding itself on representing rural and regional communities for almost a century. Image: National Party Leader Barnaby Joyce (AAP)

At this election the Nationals have a chance to increase their parliamentary representation and influence within the Coalition with the Liberals.

 

But as this report shows, leader Senator Barnaby Joyce has a fight on his hands in his own New South Wales seat of New England.