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,

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. Born in Kano, Nigeria, to a British intelligence officer,