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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I was 15 when my 'father' called me into the living room and brutally told me I'd been adopted. Now, after 50 years, I've finally tracked down my real dad - and the firebrand union chief who's my long-lost half-sister
Sharon Graham in full flight is something to behold. Fist aloft... blazing rhetoric... cries of solidarity. Spellbound comrades cheer her every exhortation. In the first female leader of Unite, Britain's most powerful union, it is easy to recognise the firebrand orators of old.
ABC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
More federal funding made available to NSW flood victims
Photo shows Pacific's 'Iron Lady' Falls: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa smiles with a red flower behind her ear, and Samoan flag behind her. Has Video Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds . 1 m 11 s
ABC News
13-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
To the centre: Liberals enter ‘new era' with leader Sussan Ley
For the first time in its 80-year history, the federal Liberal Party has elected its first female leader. Sussan Ley, the long-time member for the electorate of Farrer in regional NSW, will lead the opposition alongside new deputy Ted O'Brien. The historic appointment comes after an historic election defeat for the party. ABC NewsRadio's Rachel Hayter spoke with Federal Vice President of the Liberal Party Fiona Scott, about how the party will reform under Sussan Ley.
The Guardian
13-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Sussan Ley elected first female Liberal leader, narrowly defeating Angus Taylor in ballot
Sussan Ley has become Australia's first female opposition leader, beating Angus Taylor in the race for the Liberal leadership. Smashed in the 3 May federal election, Liberal MPs met to elect a new leadership team at Parliament House on Tuesday morning, without Peter Dutton, the former leader who lost his seat in the historic drubbing. Ley, a former environment and health minister, was the Liberal party's deputy leader under Dutton and has been a member of parliament since 2001. Now the most senior woman in the party's 80-year history, Ley was elected 29 votes to 25 votes over the former shadow treasurer. She is the first regionally based opposition leader since the 1990s. The 63-year-old is one of the longest-serving female MPs in Canberra. Liberal party acting chief opposition whip Melissa Price announced the result just after 10:15am. Born in Kano, Nigeria, Ley represents the regional New South Wales seat of Farrer and is a former wool and beef farmer and tax office executive. A trained pilot, she joined the Liberal party in 1994 and has held the industry and small business portfolios since 2022. A mother and grandmother, Ley's father was a British intelligence officer who brought his family to Australia in the 1970s. She has previously revealed she enjoyed a 'brief punk rock period' in the 1980s and added an extra 's' to her first name in her 20s, guided by numerology. Serving as a minister under Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, Ley resigned from cabinet in 2017 over an expenses scandal involving official travel and the purchase of an investment property on the Gold Coast.
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Sussan Ley confirmed as new leader of the Liberal party
Sussan Ley has been confirmed as the new leader of the Liberal party, making history as the party's first female leader. Daily Mail Australia understands she won the vote 29-25 against Angus Taylor. Jacinta Price has announced she will no longer be running for deputy leader of the party.
