{"id":46973,"date":"2025-05-13T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46973"},"modified":"2025-05-13T02:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:49:44","slug":"liberal-party-names-first-female-leader-after-historic-australia-election-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46973","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Party names first female leader after historic Australia election loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Australia’s Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor – who ran on a promise to restore conservative values – by four votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the election on 3 May, the Liberal-National coalition, currently Australia’s main opposition party, suffered what many are calling the worst defeat in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pundits and MPs have blamed the result on polarising leaders, a messy campaign and “Trumpian” policies, which alienated women and young people in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ley’s appointment comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sworn in at Government House on Tuesday, following his Labor Party’s landslide election win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Labor has won at least 93 seats – increasing their majority by 16 – while the Coalition has 41 electorates, down from 58. Some seats are still too close to call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ley has held the massive regional New South Wales seat of Farrer since 2001 and has served as a senior minister in a variety of portfolios – making her one of the Liberal Party’s most experienced hands. She was also the party deputy under Dutton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted O’Brien, a Queensland MP who was the energy spokesman in charge of selling the coalition’s controversial nuclear power proposal<\/a>, was elected Ley’s deputy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both are expected to address the media later on Tuesday, but Ley has previously said she wanted to help the party rebuild its relationship with Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Many Australians, including women and younger Australians, feel neglected by the Liberal Party,” she said when announcing her desire to lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We need to listen and we need to change. The Liberal Party must respect modern Australia, reflect modern Australia and represent modern Australia.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking after the party room vote, former minister Linda Reynolds said: “Australia spoke very clearly to the Liberal Party and we’ve listened and we’ve acted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The junior coalition partner, the Nationals, re-elected leader David Littleproud on Monday, after he too was challenged by a hardlineconservative colleague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese’s new cabinet was also sworn in on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest changes include former Labor deputy Tanya Plibersek swapping from the environment portfolio to social services, and former communications minister Michelle Rowland becoming attorney general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic – the first Muslim to become an Australian government minister – were both removed from the frontbench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have got people who are, I think, in the best positions and that’s across the board,” Albanese said when announcing the positions on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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