Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election defeat.

Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss. Ley, from the ...

Political strategist and adviser Yaron Finkelstein says the Liberal Party needs to face the “modern realities” of Australia. “It has to be either the old ways of doing business or the new ...

Sussan Ley has become the first woman to lead Australia’s opposition Liberal Party which suffered a bruising election loss to prime minister Anthony Albanese.

Australia’s Liberal party has elected its first female leader after suffering a crushing defeat in nationwide elections this month that returned Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to power ...

The Australian Electoral Commission is reviewing the authorisation of hundreds of antisemitic pamphlets handed out in Caulfield, a prominent Jewish suburb, impersonating the Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party is promising to “make Australia smile again” and “make Australia great again” at pre-polls across NSW with a slogan that has prompted fresh comparisons with Donald Trump.

Liberal Party Federal Vice President Fiona Scott told Sky News her party had moved away from its core principles, and the results show they need to work harder to reach multicultural Australia.

Australia’s return of a left-leaning government follows Canada’s similar sharp swing towards Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, another governing party whose fortunes were transformed by Trump.

Former defence minister Peter Dutton has been elected unanimously to lead Australia’s center-right Liberal Party after its election defeat, potentially foreshadowing a shift to the right in the ...