David Littleproud

David Kelly Littleproud (born 4 September 1976) is an Australian politician who was the leader of the National Party from 2022 to 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the Queensland division of Maranoa since 2016. He previously served as a cabinet minister in the Turnbull and Morrison governments. Littleproud grew up in Chinchilla, Queensland, the son of former state government minister Brian Littleproud.

He worked as an agribusiness banker with NAB and Suncorp before entering politics. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016. Littleproud was appointed to cabinet the following year, subsequently serving as Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources (2017–2019), Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management (2019–2020), Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management (2020–2021), and Agriculture and Northern Australia (2021–2022).

He was elected deputy leader of the Nationals in February 2020 under Michael McCormack. He retained the position under Barnaby Joyce and successfully challenged Joyce for the leadership following the Coalition's defeat at the 2022 election. Littleproud led the National party at the 2025 election, and through two temporary break ups of the Coalition in 2025 and 2026, before resigning the leadership on 10 March 2026.