Sussan Ley has become the first ever female leader of the Australian Liberal Party.
The battle for the top spot was between Ley — who is the MP for the seat of Farrer in regional NSW — and Hume MP Angus Taylor.
At 10am on Tuesday, Liberal Party MPs convened to decide on who would be replacing Peter Dutton after he lost his seat of Dickson in the Federal Election. After a weekend of lobbying, the MPs cast a vote and decided that Ley would be filling Dutton’s shoes.
As Dutton’s deputy leader, Ley was held as the favourite to win. She came out on top after receiving 29 votes, to Taylor’s 25 in a ballot of 54 members.
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Ley has been a member of parliament since 2001, hosting the deputy leadership under Dutton since 2022.
She is considered to be one of the longest-serving MPs in Canberra. According to The Guardian, the 63-year-old is a former wool and beef farmer, a trained pilot and a tax office executive.
For some extra fun facts about Ley, she previously stated that she was one of “Canberra’s original punk-rock people” and added the extra “s” in “Sussan” when she was 20 after being guided by numerology.
Slay mama.
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