00:00Coalition MPs had leadership on their minds as they arrived at Parliament.
00:06The Nationals contest was out in the open.
00:09You'll all know the result in a couple of hours' time.
00:12The Liberals in the background, with Mark Speakman's future in the balance.
00:16I think the party room is behind him and we've got a job ahead of us to hold Labour to account.
00:21Mark has my full support and I think he'll be the leader for the rest of this week
00:26and lead us to the next election.
00:29The member for Epping too pushed for time to offer her backing.
00:34The member for Ride keeping his options open.
00:37Well I'm here for Ride, so whoever's for Ride, I'm for them.
00:41The question over the Nationals' leadership was resolved quickly.
00:44Coffs Harbour MP and former blueberry farmer Gurmesh Singh elected unopposed.
00:48It's a tremendous honour.
00:50Following the sudden resignation of Dougal Saunders.
00:53Great media performer. I do like the policy side of things a lot more.
00:57Policy priority number one will be energy.
01:00Many of his MPs want to formally abandon Net Zero like their colleagues in Canberra.
01:05Three and a half hours in, I won't rule anything in or out.
01:07Along with our coalition partners in the Liberal Party, we will come up with a consolidated plan to take to the next election.
01:13The Liberals held their own meeting today to discuss Net Zero and there was resounding support for sticking with the 2050 target.
01:20But there was no press conference from Mark Speakman who was keen to avoid questions over the leadership which are only growing louder.
01:27Who's going to be looking at now?
01:29You?
01:31Realisation.
01:33We are going to go off the...
01:37The!
01:38You?
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