AUSTRALIA’S PARTY ELECT FIRST WOMAN LEADER- Ley said her appointment sends a signal to Australian women
Australia’s conservative Liberal Party elected Sussan Ley, a former outback pilot with three finance degrees, as its first woman leader today, after an election loss.
Ley said her appointment as the first female leader of the Liberal Party “sent a signal” to Australian women, although her agenda would be “much more than that”, flagging the need for new policies on economic and tax reform.
“We did let women down, there is no doubt about that, and it is true that the number of women supporting us is declining and I want to rule a line under that,” she told a press conference in Canberra, reflecting on the conservative party’s loss.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday after his Labor Party rode a voter backlash to a come-from-behind victory in the May 3 national election.
The opposition conservative Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton, who had been labelled “DOGEy Dutton” by Labor after echoing Trump policies to cut thousands of public service jobs including diversity and inclusion roles, lost his seat.
