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As the dust settles from the 2025 Federal Election, the blame games are well underway amongst the remaining MPs that make up losing side.
Prime Minister Albanese has more than doubled the seats held by the Coalition, after a bloodbath Labor landslide on Saturday night.
With the Liberal Party making just one gain on the entire election map, which wasn’t even against Labor, there is very little to cheer about for the Coalition.
Liberal Party powerbrokers have since begun asking, and avoiding, some very tough questions.
Firstly, does the party need to install quotas for female candidates? Or will they continue to keep getting flogged at the ballot by the most ambitious and well educated generation of women voters in Australian history.
The next very tough question is, who will now lead the Liberal Party in their most darkest hour.
The answer to both those questions could very well be the same thing.
No need to upset the geriatric membership base by allowing females an unfair handicap in the Liberal Party branch pre-selections. Just appoint a female leader and let her inspire Liberally-minded women to be better than the blokes.
Liberal deputy leader Sussan Ley, one of the five female Liberal MPs remaining in the lower house, has won support from several veteran Liberal heavyweights in her bid to become the party’s next leader.
Jeff Kennett, Nick Greiner and Barry O’Farrell have named her the best choice.
Meanwhile, the smarter and richer Liberal Party powerbrokers are backing the shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor – a man who has been educated at all of the right schools and Universities, and has a lot more on his CV.
But with the Coalition’s inability to win over female voters now at the centre of this existential crisis, it seems that being a Rhode Scholar who has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the private sector is simply not enough.
The Liberal Party needs a woman to carry the burden of every single shortcoming, scandal, and allegation of criminal conduct that the Federal Opposition will endure over the next three years.
The glass ceiling has been shattered. Now lets see if she Sussan Ley can keep her footing on the glass cliff.
