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Sussan Ley wasn’t dumped because she’s a woman, and yet ...
The Liberal Party has just knocked off its first female leader, after nine months. How will they win back women voters now?
- Jacqueline Maley
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‘Change or die’: Taylor puts forward new vision as Ley lobs byelection bomb on way out
Angus Taylor won the Liberal leadership in a party room vote on Friday morning, while former leader Sussan Ley a short time later gave notice she would resign from parliament.
- Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
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Good start from Taylor and Hume – but more of the same won’t cut it
Liberal Party MPs are gambling that Angus Taylor and Jane Hume will form a political dream team. Their first media conference was good, their last election campaign was not.
- James Massola
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Sussan Ley took this job with ambition and promise. But things soon unravelled
Ley is going to resign from her seat and leave politics following her defeat. But how much of her downfall was her own bad calls as opposition leader, and how much of it was the nightmare she inherited?
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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The Liberal Party leader from central casting: Who is Angus Taylor?
The 59-year-old son of a fourth-generation NSW sheep farmer has been in parliament for 13 years – and is closer than ever to a prize he has long sought.
- James Massola
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Winning the Liberal leadership may be the easy part for Taylor
Defeating Sussan Ley will mark the beginning, not the end, of the hard work for Angus Taylor.
- James Massola
Taylor poised to become Liberal leader as Ley backers lose hope
Challenger Angus Taylor is set to take on the enormous task of reviving the Liberal Party, as allies of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley lament the rejection of a more orderly transition.
- Paul Sakkal and Nick Newling
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Taylor versus Ley, the sequel, shapes up as a box-office bomb
Far from the audience-thrilling rituals of political leadership challenges, this one started out as a flop.
- Tony Wright
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Taylor faces a world of problems from day one if he wins the Liberal leadership
Winning the Liberal leadership will mark the start, not the end, of the hard work for Angus Taylor.
- James Massola
Taylor backers plot mass resignations as Ley’s allies invoke Turnbull hardball tactics
Hume, whom Ley dumped from the frontbench last year, is in the mix to run as Taylor’s deputy running-mate and raised expectations of a spill on Monday when she warned about an election wipeout.
- Paul Sakkal