Good afternoon. Sussan Ley says she will “take the time to get it right” after becoming Australia’s first female opposition leader,narrowly beating Angus Taylor in a party room ballotfor the Liberal leadership.
Ley’s deputy will be Ted O’Brien,the former energy spokesperson, who fended off a surprise challenge from the Queensland MP Phil Thompson. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who had announced she would run for deputy leader, withdrew after Taylor lost the leadership ballot.
In her first press conference as opposition leader, Ley said Australia was“a place where I could dream my biggest dreams”, and the Liberals needed torespect, reflect and representmodern Australia. She said the party would review “every single policy issue” in the wake of the election, including nuclear and net zero, but that there “won’t be a climate war” under her leadership.
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Erin Patterson is on trial in regional Victoria, where she has pleaded not guilty to murdering or attempting to murder four relatives of her estranged husband at a 2023 lunch.Nino Buccihas been attending the trial andexplains what’s happened so far. You cancatch up on the latest evidencefrom today here.
“We need an effective opposition in the House of Representatives. That’s extremely important. And we need the government to be held to account on the things that communities like Kooyong care about.”
The freshly re-elected teal independentMonique Ryansays she will spend the next three yearsfocusing on housing affordability and tax reform, and will push the Albanese government for more action on electrification and the net zero transition.
The latest Guardian Essential poll shows many voters want the Albanese government to stick to the policies it took to the election, but there is appetite among progressives for Labor touse its large majority to be more ambitious, writes Essential’s Peter Lewis.
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