Leadership spill brings end to 25-year career for Ley
SUSSAN LEY WILL END HER 25-YEAR POLITICAL CAREER:
* Born in Nigeria to British parents, he grew up in the UAE and attended boarding school in England, then immigrated to Australia with his family at the age of 13
* His family moves to Toowoomba to run a cattle farm before moving to Canberra
* Miss Ley says her teenage years were rebellious, including adding an extra S to her name
* He also holds a commercial pilot’s license and works other jobs such as air traffic controller and cutter cook
* After marrying and moving to her husband’s farm in north-east Victoria, she studied economics at universities and worked at the ATO
* Won preselection by 206 votes in the 2001 election for the Liberal Party in the NSW seat of Farrer, a stronghold of national candidates
* Ms Ley held a backbench position during the Howard government, but became the opposition housing spokeswoman under leader Brendan Nelson in 2007
* In 2014, he rose to the cabinet as health minister in the Abbott government.
* He resigned from cabinet in 2017 following a spending scandal in which he was revealed to have used taxpayers’ funds to travel to the Gold Coast and buy a property.
* Appointed environment minister in Morrison government
* Became Liberal deputy leader following the coalition’s election defeat in 2022, running unopposed for the job under Peter Dutton
* She went viral in 2023 after posing as Tina Turner in parliament to raise money for cancer research
* Narrowly became leader of the opposition in 2025, beating Angus Taylor 29 to 25 in the leadership vote to become the first female leader of the Liberal Party
* His mother died just days after he took on the role of opposition leader, and he was also dealing with a split in the coalition as the National Party split over policy disagreements – the coalition regrouped a week later
* Leading Conservative leaders Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa face Price’s resignation and his leadership questioned
* He came under fire for criticizing the Prime Minister for wearing a Joy Division T-shirt, saying it was anti-Semitic, and for calling on US ambassador Kevin Rudd to resign despite a successful deal with President Donald Trump
* Bondi faces a second coalition split in less than a year over emergency hate speech laws brought about by terror attack – parties regroup in just over two weeks
* News poll shows coalition falling to record low primary vote share and parties trailing in One Nation poll, leading to leadership speculation
* Mr Taylor resigned from the front bench on Wednesday and subsequently launched a leadership challenge; Several other members of the shadow ministry also resigned
* Ms Ley lost her leadership by 34 votes to 17 and later announced she would quit parliament after 25 years
