Coalition government and Western Australia the Liberal and National parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively. The other federal coalition has been: In Belgium, where there are separate Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parties for each political grouping, coalition cabinets of up to six parties are common. In Canada, the Great Coalition was formed in 1864 by the Clear Grits, Parti bleu, and Liberal-Conservative Party. During the First World War, Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the
2010–11 Belgian government formation agreement between the Flemish parties CD&V, Open VLD, sp.a, Groen! and the Francophone parties PS, MR, CDH and Ecolo for a sixth institutional reform was presented to the media. However, a government coalition still had to be formed. The green parties Groen! and Ecolo will not be in the coalition, because only a normal majority is needed to form a government. However, there will not be a majority on the Flemish side. A nuclear power phaseout was also agreed. On 21 November 2011, Di Rupo presented a final proposal for the 2012 budget to the negotiation parties; the social and