Fed: Nats rally but still face policy quagmire

AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2001
Fed: Nats rally but still face policy quagmire

The National Party has finished a two-day crisis gathering in southern New South Wales
promising policy changes but saying there is limited room to move.

A two-and-a-half hour closed-door meeting in the Murray River town of Corowa gave increasingly
nervous MPs and senators a chance to vent their concerns about policy direction and the
prickly issue of One Nation preferences.

National Party leader JOHN ANDERSON used an address to about 120 members of the Corowa
National Party branch to outline some areas, such as competition policy, …