Australia news LIVE: Colin Boyce to move spill motion for leadership of National Party today; Fresh details of internal negotiations emerge after Hastie pulls out of Liberal leadership race

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has slammed the Liberals and Nationals this morning, calling the parties a “bin fire”.

“They don’t know who their leader is going to be from one week to the next,” she told Seven’s Sunrise.

Plibersek also responded to recent polling showing One Nation surging in popularity.

“As One Nation does better in the polls, I think it’s actually really important that journalists, the Australian public more broadly, start to ask for some more specific details of their policies.

“It’s all very well to go around as a party of grievance and complain about things, point out things that they feel are wrong. They need to get out there with some detailed policies if they really want to be tested in the way the major parties are,” she said.

Rather than disagreeing with Plibersek’s assertion that One Nation was a grievance party, Barnaby Joyce, appearing alongside the minister on their regular Sunrise panel, seemed to agree.

“Tanya gives us and the Labor Party so much material to protest about,” he said. “It’s so easy to be a grievance party when you’re the government.”

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has refused to say whether any members of the National Party will follow his path and defect to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, after it teased a big announcement in the coming days.

Asked by Sunrise host Natalie Barr what the announcement would be, Joyce said, “I’m just going to leave it to 24 hours. I think we can get there.”

Barr began shooting off names of prospective defectors, including Bridget McKenzie, Michael McCormack and Matt Canavan.

Joyce refused to concede any answers, but repeated that the announcement would come tomorrow.

Nationals MP Colin Boyce will move a spill motion for the leadership of the party in a challenge to current leader David Littleproud.

He said he planned to move the motion to the party room this afternoon, but has not canvassed any of his colleagues for votes.

Boyce said he was moving the motion because he believed the party was committing “political suicide” by trying to go it alone without the support of the Liberal Party, and that the Coalition needed to reform in order for the Nationals to survive.

Littleproud split the Coalition following division over the hate speech laws presented to parliament in January.

He now also faces pressure from Ley after she gave him an ultimatum on Friday, telling him he had one week to reform the Coalition.

Details have emerged this morning that supporters of Angus Taylor pressured Liberal MP Andrew Hastie to park his Liberal Party leadership ambitions. Hastie pulled out of the leadership race on Friday.

Fresh details of the Liberal Party dispute follow a covert meeting in Melbourne on Thursday, held ahead of the funeral of Liberal MP Katie Allen, where powerbrokers sought to end a debate over which MP should challenge Ley following the breakdown of the partnership with the Nationals.

Hastie pulled out of the race on Friday, a day after the meeting in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs where leading right-wingers Senator James Paterson and former MP Michael Sukkar made the case that Hastie, 43, had years ahead of him and it was Taylor’s time. Others in the meeting, including frontbencher Jonno Duniam, wanted Hastie to contest the leadership.

Taylor, who was shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton, has been talking to Hastie’s supporters to soften the blow since the West Australian bowed out. Ultimately, the group would back any right-wing candidate over Ley in a ballot, even if some of the zeal has been taken out of the conservative push for a spill.

Read the full update from federal political correspondent Paul Sakkal.

Good morning and welcome to our national news live blog for Monday, February 2. My name is Emily Kaine, and I’ll be helming our live coverage this morning. Here’s what is making headlines today.

• Details have emerged this morning that supporters of Angus Taylor pressured Liberal MP Andrew Hastie to park his Liberal Party leadership ambitions. Hastie pulled out of the leadership race on Friday.
• Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is not the only leader facing an imminent leadership challenge – Nationals MP Colin Boyce announced last week he would move a spill motion for the leadership of the Nationals, challenging leader David Littleproud. He said he planned to move the motion in the party room this afternoon.
• Littleproud also faces pressure from Ley. She gave him an ultimatum on Friday, telling him he had one week to revive the Coalition following divisions over the hate speech laws the government introduced to parliament on January 20.

• World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz defeated tennis legend Novak Djokovic last night to become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam with his maiden Australian Open title. Alcaraz’s 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 triumph over 10-time champion Djokovic also made him the first men’s player to win seven major singles championships before turning 23.

• The biggest names in the music world will gather today in Los Angeles for the 68th annual Grammy Awards, with the ceremony to kick off later this morning.

Stay with us as we bring you rolling news updates from Australia and beyond throughout the day.