Inside the brutal fallout of Sussan Ley dumping FOUR women from her cabinet - and fresh humiliation for the Greens after election disaster: PETER VAN ONSELEN
Ley sharpens her knife in shadow cabinet reshuffle
So far as frontbench reshuffles go, Sussan Ley's decision - as the first female leader of the federal Liberal Party - to dump four women from the shadow cabinet was an interesting one.
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