Liberal Party names first female leader after historic Australia election loss

This is the same woman who had to resign as minister in 2017 because to went to the Gold Coast on the public’s purse to buy an investment unit.. the Libs have short memories

Despite the name, the Australian Liberal Party is anything but liberal.

It was as a young woman that she changed her name from Susan to Sussan, inspired by numerology - an ancient belief that numbers have a mystical impact on people's lives.
"I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality," she told The Australian.
"I worked out that if you added an 's' I would have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would ever be boring. It's that simple."

Hoo boy.

Incredibly fitting for the party:
Ley apologised after using a taxpayer-funded trip to purchase an apartment on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Whoops, I accidentally purchased a house!
Ley has also drawn headlines for her comments about Palestinians. She was a co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, an informal cross-party group which aimed to raise the experiences of Palestinian people and has spoken in the chamber in support of Palestinian autonomy.
Ooh, that's really promising....
However, speaking after the vote on Tuesday, one of her colleagues Andrew Wallace said she has "seen the light on Israel in recent years".
Oh, for fucks sake...
Seppo detected.
Liberalism in the rest of the world means what our party is, you Americans warped the meaning to something progressive. That is unique to you.
- I'm south East Asian living in europe, never been to the US.
Their name comes from them being economically liberal, not socially liberal.
- They aren't that either. They're economically challenged, at best.
You know, there is some legitimacy to believing things like that.
The fact that she believes that added an S to her name will make her live a more interesting life will probably encourage her to do things she otherwise would not.
What exactly do you mean that they're not liberal?
- The Liberal Party of Australia (LP)[14] is the major centre-right[15][16] political party in Australia.
  On the standard conservative - liberal scale, they trend conservative despite their name.
- Their name comes from them being economically liberal, not socially liberal.

Worth noting is that she was for decades extremely pro-Palestine and had taken trips there paid for by the PA, but since winning the leadership yesterday has gone back on all of that over night. Even if a conservative has a soul, they sell it for power the second they can.

Thats wild
- That's politics.
  Genuine people are the ones who usually get 1-2% of the vote.

Trash, just like the AU Liberal party men I’m sure

She looks like a cunt too

She got that sussy.

It's like watching a delayed version of US and UK politics. complete with the hard-right neoliberals doing some Identity Politics Whitewashing after a major defeat by making a pro-wealthy politician who happens to be of the female gender their leader in order to claim they're progressive rather than regressive.

As if they didn't eagerly support the biggest Discrimination around by all metrics - that based on Wealth.

ITT: people acting like absolute smug assholes to anyone who anyone that knows the actual meaning of basic words but not how politicians have twisted that word in select countries. Seriously, anyone that wants to complain about American exceptionalism needs to come to this thread and see these dickheads being snarky and shitting on people for not being intimately familiar with their country's inner workings. I bet that if I blocked certain people from this thread, my over all Lemmy experience would improve dramatically.

Seppo detected.
- Someone that thinks the world revolves around them detected.
No one is doing that because Americans are ignorant of another countries inner workings, they're doing that because Americans are ignorant of the worlds workings.
We don't expect much, but if the world says 2+2=4, we don't want you coming around saying it means 5.