Sussan Ley's savage admission about Coalition's election disaster

Sussan Ley has reflected connected nan Liberal Party's stunning predetermination conclusion successful her first National Press Club reside arsenic guidance leader.

Ley admitted nan Coalition "didn't conscionable lose, we sewage smashed" successful a frank appraisal of her party's national predetermination missteps and announced a reappraisal into nan run is now nether way.

"What we, arsenic nan Liberal Party, presented to nan Australian group was comprehensively rejected," Ley said.

"The standard of that defeat, its size and significance, is not mislaid connected me, nor immoderate 1 of my parliamentary squad sitting present today."

Ley steered clear of mentioning predecessor Peter Dutton by name, who besides mislaid his spot of Dickson successful a historical individual and statement loss, but said it was up to her arsenic nan first female leader of nan guidance to "do better".

She besides vowed to bring much women into nan Coalition up of nan adjacent election.

"Let maine nonstop nan clearest imaginable message: we request to do better, enlistee better, clasp amended and support better," Ley said.

"That's why I will activity pinch each division, arsenic will my parliamentary team, to guarantee we pre-select much women for nan 2028 election."

Ley said nan adjacent steps would impact a awesome semipermanent reappraisal of nan statement and vowed nan Coalition would study from its mistakes.

She said her ngo is now to build a beardown replacement to ballot for astatine nan adjacent election.

Part of nan wide-ranging Liberal Party reappraisal will see a "root-and-branch review" of nan predetermination result, Ley said.

"Never has a reappraisal been truthful important to nan national Liberal Party," she said.

"[The] reappraisal will beryllium frank and fearless, ensuring a thorough and honorable appraisal of what went incorrect and really we tin hole it."

Ley said a argumentation refresh is precocious connected nan agenda.

She admitted nan predetermination consequence proved nan Coalition's policies weren't beardown capable and nor did they resonate pinch nan Australian people.

"We request to beryllium superior and credible. We do request to activity connected our policy, arsenic I outlined today," Ley added.

"That argumentation improvement wasn't done good successful nan past term. Some group person been very unfastened astir it."

Ley said astatine magnitude astir her passion for fighting against home violence, which she described arsenic Australia's "national shame".

"They are mothers, daughters, friends. They had hopes and dreams. That they will ne'er now realise," she said.

"I want nan women of Australia to perceive maine erstwhile I opportunity to them, arsenic a nationalist leader, I understand nan fearfulness you consciousness erstwhile you spell for a locomotion alone.

"Because I person felt that fearfulness too."

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