The current leader of the party is Matt Canavan, who assumed office on 11 March 2026.

Due to the closeness and integration of the two parties, as well as the declining vote of the Nationals in recent years, it has been proposed several times that the Liberals and the Nationals formally merge. In Queensland, the Country Party (later National Party) was the senior coalition party between 1925 and 2008, after which it merged with the junior Liberal