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For decades the regions have been represented by the dull end of the political spectrum: the National Party in its various guises. Originally, as the Country Party they supported farmers, before more recently becoming the cheer squad for mining. Their competitors, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, are broadly indistinguishable; the one constant has been their deep, right-wing, conservative ideology.