Australia’s Liberal party elects first female leader

All About Sussan Ley, First Woman To Lead Australia's Liberal Party

Australia's Liberal Party has elected Sussan Ley as its new leader. She is the first woman ever to helm the party in its 80-year history.

Australian opposition elects first female leader after poll drubbing

SYDNEY -- Australia's main political opposition Liberal Party selected Sussan Ley on Tuesday as the first female leader in the party's 80-year history

View from The Hill: Ley says Liberals must ‘meet the people where they are’, but how can a divided party do that?

Cynics point out that when a party turns to a woman leader, it is often handing her a hot mess. That’s certainly so with the federal Liberals, now choosing their first female leader in eight decades. For the Liberals, and for Sussan Ley, 63, this is a bittersweet milestone. The odds are overwhelmingly against her chances of taking the Liberals from opposition to government. Given Labor’s massive majority, it will be virtually impossible for the …

The Liberals of Västmanland have decided to nominate Lotta Edholm, currently Minister of Education in the government, to the position of new party chairwoman, the union writes in a press release.

Glass ceiling or glass cliff? What awaits Sussan Ley as the first woman to lead the Liberals

The Liberal Party’s worst-ever electoral wipeout has led it to choose its first-ever woman leader.

Australia’s Liberal opposition elects first female leader

Australia’s center-right Liberal party has elected Sussan Ley as its new leader, the first woman to head the party since it was founded in 1944, taking up the task of leading the opposition back to government after a devastating election loss 10 days ago.  Ley is also the first woman to lead Australia’s opposition in the country’s history. The nation’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, became leader of the Labor Party in 2010 while it …