why do some people continue to use LNP to describe the coalition...

why do some people continue to use LNP to describe the coalition parties of Liberals and Nationals at the federal level ? The LNP (Liberal National Party) as a legal entity is confined to Queensland and nowhere else. Even the members of LNP in the federal parliament are not calling themselves Liberal National, they are continuing to call themselves either Liberals or Nationals.

If you use LNP (= Liberal National Party)to include all federal parliamentary members of Liberals and Nationals, go and ask Tony Abbott, or Joe Hockey, or Malcolm Turnbull, or Barnaby Joyce, or Julie Bishop, or Warren Truss, or Christopher Pyne if they are a Liberal National. They will tell you to get a better understanding of federal politics.

If you are too lazy to type out in full the Liberal National coalition, perhaps you can use LNC (to mean Liberal national coalition), it cannot be the LNP (to mean the Liberal National Party). The Liberal Party and National Party at the federal level have not merged to form a legal entity called the Liberal National Party.

Barnaby Joyce is the leader of the Nationals in the Senate. There are no members from the Liberal National Party in the Senate or the House of Representatives.