Liberal Party's social media pages 'hacked' with pornographic images - just hours after Sussan Ley's landmark speech
Several extremely scantily-clad, seemingly AI-generated, women appeared on the 'stories' section of the Liberal Party of Australia Facebook page and Instagram accounts on Wednesday night.
The images, which were broadcast to both page's combined 360,000 followers, were swiftly deleted - but not before eagle-eyed and fast-fingered viewers could grab screenshots.
Some reported the X-rated pictures were an advert for breast enlargement procedures, while many saw the funny side.
'The Liberal party has gone t**s up,' one quipped.
Another claimed they were 'just showing the benefits of inflation ', while a third suggested they were 'making the breast of a bad situation' following their historic humbling at the polls.
'The Liberal Party in Australia has been giving jobs to boobs for years. Just look at Dutton,' one joked.
Daily Mail Australia approached the Liberal Party for comment.
Sussan Ley, the party's first-female leader in its 80-year history, attempted to make a clean breast of things on Wednesday when she admitted the party had been 'smashed' at the federal election.
'Let's be honest and up front about last month's election,' she told the National Press Club in Canberra.
'We didn't just lose. We got smashed. Totally smashed.'
Ley's speech was her first major attempt to refashion the party in her own image.
She began it with an acknowledgement to country - a ceremony predecessor Peter Dutton said was 'overdone'.
She also sought to distinguish herself from Dutton by highlighting her 'deep and abiding respect for the public service'.
Dutton, infamously, had to abandon his plans to force all public servants back into the office because of its deep unpopularity.
Ley, 63, also discussed two separate reviews into the Liberal Party's collapse: one conducting a 'root and branch' review of the election result and another having a 'deeper look at the existential issues we face'.
Sussan Ley, the party's first-female leader in its 80-year history, attempted to make a clean breast of things on Wednesday when she admitted the party had been 'smashed' at the federal election
She also insisted she was a 'zealot' about increasing the number of Liberal women in parliament, backing quotas for female candidates.
'As the first woman leader of our Federal Party, let me send the clearest possible message: we need to do better, recruit better, retain better and support better,' she said.
'That is why I will work with every Division, as will my Parliamentary team, to ensure we preselect more women for the 2028 Election.'
Only a third of Liberal Party MPs are women compared to over half of Labor MPs.
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