Sussan Ley has become the first woman to lead Australia's Liberal Party.
She's been deputy for three years and has been appointed leader in a tight ballot, edging out Treasury spokesperson Angus Taylor.
It comes after former leader Peter Dutton lost his seat in the recent election.
Australia Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking Ley's switched on, as a qualified commercial airline pilot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Australia. Steve Price, very good Wednesday morning to you.
Good to be with you. A lot of people from
what I've been reading the Susan Lay who got a
little proud got up for the Net. Susan Lay got
up for the Liberal Party and called her a punk rocker.
When was she a punk rocker? What sort of punk
rocker was she? And would most Australians know her as
a former punk rocker. No.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The answer to the last part of the question, she
says she was an early adopter of punk rockery, that's
the way to describe it, in Canberra, back when she
was in her early twenties, and described how she once
went to work wearing punk rock gear and razor blades
(00:40):
attached to her ears and things coming out of her
nose and all that sort of stuff. You wouldn't think
of that when you immediately think of Susan Lay, but
you should. I should point out that this woman, she's
sixty three years old now, she's been a minister in Abbott,
Turnbull Morrison governments and of course in the Dutton government,
and she is a commercial airline pilot. So you know
(01:03):
a lot of people can throw I'm not suggesting you're
doing this can throw stones at Susan leb but she certainly.
I mean, she's just taken on the worst job in
the world. But she's very interesting, very talented. Obviously, anyone
that can fly commercial airliner is smart, and that's Susan
but Lee. But her problem is that she's taken over
(01:24):
a party that's been decimated in the election. Well, I'll
give you the numbers shortly, but this is the best
way to look at it. The Liberals don't hold one
seat in Metropolitan Adelaie, they don't hold a seat in Tasmania.
They've virtually been wiped out in Melbourne and Perth and Sydney.
And she's supposed to now rebuild this party over three
years and be competitive when the next election comes around.
(01:47):
I mean, it is not a job that anybody that
you or I know would want to have.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Would your sense of it be? Everyone within the party
understands that. And if she falls a bit short come
three years time, she gets to carry the jew on
or is she a placeholder.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'd be surprised if she'd made for three years, to
be honest, unless something radically goes wrong with the Albanezi
government and that's entirely possible. I mean, governments with the
numbers that I'm about to give you get who hubris,
and they do tend to make mistakes. I mean, for
a start, we have the Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen,
(02:23):
writing in the Australian newspaper this morning, saying that the
election result two saturdays ago is a rubber stamp for
him to continue with the lunacy that is turning Australia
into a place that relies on the sun and the
wind for power and use cold gas. So that's coming
down the track and it's coming at us very quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I just see it's the type of we look,
as I keep saying, we learned this lesson in twenty
through twenty three. It's not labor. It's the type of
labor government you have. So we go back in this
country to people like David Longie, Roger Douglas, Helen Clark,
different sort of labor party to the Disinda Ad party.
And is Albanesian Co Bob Hawk or are they Albanesian Co.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
They're Albanesian Co. And this is the problem that the
country's going to have. I mean, Bowen writing this morning says, well,
I look at these seats, they had a slight swing
toward labor in their primary vote. And now that means
that we can stick wind farms off the coastline of
places like Nelson Bay in Sydney or the Illawarra in
New South Wales as well, and people simply do not
(03:29):
want that. He said, Oh, well, the quiet Australians have spoken,
and rural Australians. He even made a ridiculous quote in
this column. He's written today that you'll find more electric
vehicles in Werribee than you willing to rat. Now that
is just completely ridiculous and stupid and it's not true.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
No, So what are what he up to?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Ninety one ninety two is ninety three? Does see ninety three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Ninety three to forty two, which is just a smash
And you can understand. I guess why they're so in
love with themselves and believe that they can do whatever
they want. Independence ended up on nine. We spoke on
Monday about doctor Ryan getting up in too young just narrowly.
The Liberal Party did win the seat of Bradford and
(04:17):
Sydney very narrowly, by less than five hundred votes, and
so it is an absolute smashing in any language. And
so we're now looking at probably six years of labor
governments in the middle of a global crisis when it
comes to economies and a climate crisis in Australia, where
you're going to get a minister that's being held onto
(04:40):
his portfolio. He didn't get moved sideways or dropped, and
so we're now going to go headlong down the path.
We're even going to did you know this? We're going
to host a cop meeting of all things in Adelaide,
costing multi millions of dollars in two years time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Wow, what's the sporting thing you got for Melbourne?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What's happened this? Any? Better book your tickets. Rory McElroy
has signed on the company Australia and open Nice and
Melbourne in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six. This
will be announced today. What course Royal Melbourne Golf Club
in twenty five, Kingston Heath in twenty six. Now lurking
(05:22):
in the shadows behind this deal, of course, is my
favorite ex premiere in one Daniel Andrews, who happens to
be a member at Kingston Heath and has his sticky
little fingers all over this deal. But remember this is
the city that bids for the Koonwalth Games, got them,
got two years away from hosting them, and to no,
we don't want them anymore. So we just got to
(05:44):
remember that we did blow up eight hundred million dollars
not hosting the Koonwaft Games. But that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I mean that what are they paying them?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, this is interesting. I'm glad to ask that question.
The last big name golfer to sign up to come
to Australia and play in Melbourne in an Australian Open
was back in two thousand and nine when we paid
three million dollars to Tiger Woods. They come out here
and play. Do you remember what happened post Tiger woods
visit to Melbourne in two thousand and nine with his
(06:13):
three million dollar paycheck?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I do not. What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
A woman not being his wife his room at Crown
Casino and Tiger never really recovered from that. His wife
left him, took the kids and he was out in there.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Does that all happened in Melbourne? That's Melbourn's fault, and
what it's Melbourne's fault? I was just thinking we paid
him once to come and he played it just north
of Wellington. I'm I'm just not sure. A a in
a small world of streaming and sport, and we're just
getting one person to come to a thing like that
for millions of dollars, because golf is such a rand,
(06:50):
as you well know, such a random sport that just
because the big name turns up doesn't mean they bail
themselves out and they're gone by the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Have you seen the vision from the live golf tournament
has played in Adelaid where they throw beer cups of
people on the Pathrey.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, oh, I thought there was just another day at
the golf course. Is that the live thing, isn't It's
nice to see you mate. We'll catch up next weekend.
Next week rather now we may catch up on the weekend.
Who knows Steve Price out of Australia for us this Morning.
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
In Australia. Steve Price, very good Wednesday morning to you.
Good to be with you. A lot of people from
what I've been reading the Susan Lay who got a
little proud got up for the Net. Susan Lay got
up for the Liberal Party and called her a punk rocker.
When was she a punk rocker? What sort of punk
rocker was she? And would most Australians know her as
a former punk rocker. No.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The answer to the last part of the question, she
says she was an early adopter of punk rockery, that's
the way to describe it, in Canberra, back when she
was in her early twenties, and described how she once
went to work wearing punk rock gear and razor blades
(00:40):
attached to her ears and things coming out of her
nose and all that sort of stuff. You wouldn't think
of that when you immediately think of Susan Lay, but
you should. I should point out that this woman, she's
sixty three years old now, she's been a minister in Abbott,
Turnbull Morrison governments and of course in the Dutton government,
and she is a commercial airline pilot. So you know
(01:03):
a lot of people can throw I'm not suggesting you're
doing this can throw stones at Susan leb but she certainly.
I mean, she's just taken on the worst job in
the world. But she's very interesting, very talented. Obviously, anyone
that can fly commercial airliner is smart, and that's Susan
but Lee. But her problem is that she's taken over
(01:24):
a party that's been decimated in the election. Well, I'll
give you the numbers shortly, but this is the best
way to look at it. The Liberals don't hold one
seat in Metropolitan Adelaie, they don't hold a seat in Tasmania.
They've virtually been wiped out in Melbourne and Perth and Sydney.
And she's supposed to now rebuild this party over three
years and be competitive when the next election comes around.
(01:47):
I mean, it is not a job that anybody that
you or I know would want to have.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Would your sense of it be? Everyone within the party
understands that. And if she falls a bit short come
three years time, she gets to carry the jew on
or is she a placeholder.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'd be surprised if she'd made for three years, to
be honest, unless something radically goes wrong with the Albanezi
government and that's entirely possible. I mean, governments with the
numbers that I'm about to give you get who hubris,
and they do tend to make mistakes. I mean, for
a start, we have the Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen,
(02:23):
writing in the Australian newspaper this morning, saying that the
election result two saturdays ago is a rubber stamp for
him to continue with the lunacy that is turning Australia
into a place that relies on the sun and the
wind for power and use cold gas. So that's coming
down the track and it's coming at us very quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I just see it's the type of we look,
as I keep saying, we learned this lesson in twenty
through twenty three. It's not labor. It's the type of
labor government you have. So we go back in this
country to people like David Longie, Roger Douglas, Helen Clark,
different sort of labor party to the Disinda Ad party.
And is Albanesian Co Bob Hawk or are they Albanesian Co.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
They're Albanesian Co. And this is the problem that the
country's going to have. I mean, Bowen writing this morning says, well,
I look at these seats, they had a slight swing
toward labor in their primary vote. And now that means
that we can stick wind farms off the coastline of
places like Nelson Bay in Sydney or the Illawarra in
New South Wales as well, and people simply do not
(03:29):
want that. He said, Oh, well, the quiet Australians have spoken,
and rural Australians. He even made a ridiculous quote in
this column. He's written today that you'll find more electric
vehicles in Werribee than you willing to rat. Now that
is just completely ridiculous and stupid and it's not true.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
No, So what are what he up to?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Ninety one ninety two is ninety three? Does see ninety three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Ninety three to forty two, which is just a smash
And you can understand. I guess why they're so in
love with themselves and believe that they can do whatever
they want. Independence ended up on nine. We spoke on
Monday about doctor Ryan getting up in too young just narrowly.
The Liberal Party did win the seat of Bradford and
(04:17):
Sydney very narrowly, by less than five hundred votes, and
so it is an absolute smashing in any language. And
so we're now looking at probably six years of labor
governments in the middle of a global crisis when it
comes to economies and a climate crisis in Australia, where
you're going to get a minister that's being held onto
(04:40):
his portfolio. He didn't get moved sideways or dropped, and
so we're now going to go headlong down the path.
We're even going to did you know this? We're going
to host a cop meeting of all things in Adelaide,
costing multi millions of dollars in two years time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Wow, what's the sporting thing you got for Melbourne?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What's happened this? Any? Better book your tickets. Rory McElroy
has signed on the company Australia and open Nice and
Melbourne in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six. This
will be announced today. What course Royal Melbourne Golf Club
in twenty five, Kingston Heath in twenty six. Now lurking
(05:22):
in the shadows behind this deal, of course, is my
favorite ex premiere in one Daniel Andrews, who happens to
be a member at Kingston Heath and has his sticky
little fingers all over this deal. But remember this is
the city that bids for the Koonwalth Games, got them,
got two years away from hosting them, and to no,
we don't want them anymore. So we just got to
(05:44):
remember that we did blow up eight hundred million dollars
not hosting the Koonwaft Games. But that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I mean that what are they paying them?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, this is interesting. I'm glad to ask that question.
The last big name golfer to sign up to come
to Australia and play in Melbourne in an Australian Open
was back in two thousand and nine when we paid
three million dollars to Tiger Woods. They come out here
and play. Do you remember what happened post Tiger woods
visit to Melbourne in two thousand and nine with his
(06:13):
three million dollar paycheck?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I do not. What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
A woman not being his wife his room at Crown
Casino and Tiger never really recovered from that. His wife
left him, took the kids and he was out in there.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Does that all happened in Melbourne? That's Melbourn's fault, and
what it's Melbourne's fault? I was just thinking we paid
him once to come and he played it just north
of Wellington. I'm I'm just not sure. A a in
a small world of streaming and sport, and we're just
getting one person to come to a thing like that
for millions of dollars, because golf is such a rand,
(06:50):
as you well know, such a random sport that just
because the big name turns up doesn't mean they bail
themselves out and they're gone by the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Have you seen the vision from the live golf tournament
has played in Adelaid where they throw beer cups of
people on the Pathrey.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, oh, I thought there was just another day at
the golf course. Is that the live thing, isn't It's
nice to see you mate. We'll catch up next weekend.
Next week rather now we may catch up on the weekend.
Who knows Steve Price out of Australia for us this Morning.
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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