Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives to merge with Family First

By Latika Bourke, Fergus Hunter
Updated April 26 2017 - 4:18pm, first published 3:31pm
Senator Cory Bernardi arrives to make a statement to the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 7 February 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares  Photo: Andrew Meares
Senator Cory Bernardi arrives to make a statement to the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 7 February 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

Cory Bernardi's breakaway conservative party will join forces with Family First but the incoming Senator for the soon-to-be-defunct party will not join the Liberal defector, depriving him of a two-person voting bloc.

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