Soul-searching in the Nationals after the NSW state election has prompted MPs to argue for a change of course.
"They believe you have too much regulation on tree clearing. Too much regulation on the ownership of firearms, too much regulation on everything you do on your land."They believe an urban constituency assuages their guilt by putting further restrictions on regional people."
"They have lost their jobs, they have lost their income, that’s a fact. They are rightly angry about the economic predicament that they’ve been placed in." "They’re a party and they’re to the right of us," he said. "If people are trying to muse that they’re somehow a tempered National Party, that’s ridiculous."
The Shooters are looking to field candidates in the federal NSW seats of Parkes, Calare, New England and Riverina. Parkes, which takes in about half the state and overlaps significantly with the Shooters' new state seat of Barwon, is held by the Nationals' Mark Coulton on an ostensibly healthy 15 per cent margin.
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