I can’t remember where I heard it, maybe friendly jordies, maybe democracy sausage podcast. But someone said they’d heard it was a trade for getting back together.

Conservative Liberals wanted some blood for the Nationals blowing the partnership twice in a year, and didn’t want to roll their own leader with the Nationals leader staying.

I don’t know how true that is, but I find it believable, since there was obvious anger from all sides of Liberals last month when the split happened. Long story short the ‘progressive’/‘wets’/‘soft’ Liberals get rolled by their own party for the Nationals again.