{"id":1988,"date":"2026-01-22T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:51:45","slug":"australias-opposition-coalition-splits-amid-row-over-hate-speech-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/01\/22\/australias-opposition-coalition-splits-amid-row-over-hate-speech-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Opposition Coalition Splits Amid Row Over Hate Speech Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s main opposition alliance, the Liberal-National Coalition, has broken apart after a dispute over hate speech legislation introduced following last month\u2019s deadly Bondi Beach attack. The Nationals party withdrew from the coalition after its senators defied a shadow cabinet agreement and voted against the reforms, citing concerns over free speech and rushed legislation.<\/p><p>Nationals leader David Littleproud declared the coalition \u201cuntenable,\u201d while Liberal leader Sussan Ley\u2014already under internal pressure\u2014accepted the resignation of three Nationals frontbenchers, leading the rest of their shadow cabinet to step down. This marks the second split in less than a year, raising questions about the opposition\u2019s stability and Ley\u2019s leadership ahead of future elections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s main opposition alliance, the Liberal-National Coalition, has broken apart after a dispute over hate speech legislation introduced following last month\u2019s deadly Bondi Beach attack. The Nationals party withdrew from the coalition after its senators defied a shadow cabinet agreement and voted against the reforms, citing concerns over free speech and rushed legislation. Nationals leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}