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,

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.

The Liberal Party has begun preparing for its most important leadership ballot in years, after former leader Peter Dutton was ousted from the Parliament.