Sussan Ley
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
‘People were fed up’: Sussan Ley on her punk past, feminism and why the Liberals lost
COVID crankiness not Scott Morrison was the primary drag on their vote, the new deputy leader of the Liberal Party says.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Liberal Party
Liberal Party lost the trust of Australian women long before Morrison
The Liberal Party’s pledge to earn “back” the trust of female voters implies the Liberals consistently had that trust before Morrison lost it at the federal election.
- by Julie Szego
Dutton pitches to ‘forgotten’ Australians in suburbs to rebuild Liberal vote
Peter Dutton has made a direct pitch to the “forgotten people” in the outer suburbs on his first day as opposition leader after a devastating election loss.
- by James Massola and Mike Foley
New leadership team outline priorities
Liberal leader Peter Dutton and deputy Sussan Ley have given an insight into the type of leaders they'll be and what their policy priorities will be from climate change to the economy.
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Political leadership
Dutton confirmed as new Liberal leader, Ley elected deputy
Peter Dutton and Sussan Ley are the new leadership team for the Liberal Party in opposition while the Nationals have chosen David Littleproud to lead them.
- by Katina Curtis
Liberals elect new leaders
Peter Dutton is the new leader of the Liberal Party with Sussan Ley elected deputy, as former PM Scott Morrison congratulates his successor.
‘We are Liberals’: Peter Dutton’s rallying cry to moderates and conservatives
Peter Dutton is all but certain to become the next Liberal leader. But he has a mountain to climb, with the last one-term government elected in 1929.
- by James Massola
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Factional politics
Record number of NSW Liberal members quit amid war over preselections
The internal war within the NSW division of the Liberal Party has seen a mass exodus of members.
- by Alexandra Smith
Kakadu land handed back to Aboriginal owners weeks after scathing report
Six land claims in the NT have been finalised by the federal government, including over nearly 10,000 square kilometres of Kakadu National Park.
- by Cameron Gooley
Thousands of hectares approved for projects that made koalas homeless
Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.
- by Laura Chung
Problem plastic chip, bread packets tackled with $60 million recycling fund
Hard-to-recycle plastics will be given a new lease on life with advanced plastics technology funded through $60 million of new federal grants.
- by Dana Daniel