Michael West Media · AAP · Tuesday 7 April 2026
New Nationals leader Matt Canavan will pitch an 'economic revolution' of dams, housing and population growth at the National Press Club, attacking net zero and migration orthodoxy in a bid to distinguish the junior Coalition partner.
'Australia on steroids' — mate, the Nationals have been injecting subsidies into the bush for sixty years and the patient still can't bench-press a trade surplus. Canavan wants dams, homes and babies, which is the National Party platform from 1955 with a gym membership. The revolution will be unveiled at the Press Club, where every Nationals leader since Anthony has unveiled one, and the concrete has never set on any of them.