Australia's conservative Liberal Party elected Sussan Ley, a former outback pilot with three finance degrees, as its first woman leader on Tuesday, after an election loss partly due to comparisons with U.

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. Ley, from the moderate faction of the party,

Price, in Trumpian fashion, blamed the Liberal and Coalition defeat on media lies. In announcing her joint candidacy with Taylor, she declared that the Liberals had to return to values of “liberty,” “individual freedom,” “minimal government intervention” and “most of all, love for our nation, Australia.”