🗞️ Who Is Sussan Ley?

Sussan Ley is the first woman to lead the Liberal Party.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's interesting, isn't it that the coalition pretty much turned
its back on women and they are acknowledging that that's
why the Teals have done well, that's why women didn't
respond to Peter Dutton and his own party was saying, mate,
this is you've got to look at this, You've got
to look at this, and they just didn't. And in
the aftermath of that terrible drobbing they got at the
recent election, they've elected their first female leader. Their name

(00:23):
is Susan Lay and this is interesting. They're saying that
is she going to be able to break the glass
ceiling or will she be forced off the glass cliff?
If you heard of this. She was asked about this
sister at the press conference, whether her elevation was an
example of the glass cliff, where women are most likely
to take up leadership positions when their organization is on

(00:44):
the precipice of disaster.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I like the glass precipice, so is she there.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
When we spoke to Mark Riley after the election, we
said what happens now and he said, well, the next
leader is not going to be a long term leader.
They may be the one that gets the churn Is
she being put in there to be the token churner and.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Then Angus Taylor is just standing in the wings.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, he didn't get the votes. He didn't votes, but
a lot of the reason he didn't get the votes
is because of his running mate, the person who's going
to run as his deputy. You've been practicing her name
all morning on.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Nama Jimper Yeah, she's sent a Namba Jimper Price. Yes,
it's quite satisfying to say.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
She It's interesting because she got elected not as a
member of the Liberal Party, but then the day after
the election says I'm going over there now, and she
put herself up to be his deputy. They did not
get elected as a duo. So I don't know what
happens to her now. But yes, we have Susan lay now.
And she is a grandmother. She's my age. She's a grandmother.
She's had a really interesting she's been a punk rocker,

(01:38):
she's been a pilot. Interesting, she's been a bush pilot.
She she's determined to unite the party. Yes, her name,
she's determined not to be token.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Not she's actually got three s's in a name that's
Susan with.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Two s's in the middle of the name. Apparently. Well,
I don't know if she's confirmed this, but this is
what has been said. She changed what's her name from
Susan to Susan with two SA's after reading about numerology.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Is this a Wikipedia thing?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, Well it's been quoted for a number of years.
She changed her name for purposes because she thought it
would be better leadership chances by having a different numeral.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I've worked for her there.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
She's being the leader, the first female leader of the
Liberal Party. So she's got six letters in her first name,
so I've got seven.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't think it equates like that. What do you
know about numerology?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
How many fingers am I holding up just that middle one? No,
So look, it'll be interesting to see how she goes.
Hopefully she has the support of the party behind her,
and she's got a hard job, but she's determined to
face it front on.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
As good luck to her.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do they release some black coal smoke to announce the
new look.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
She's going to announce a shadow cabinet and an eye
shadow cabinet. I don't mean that, I said it because
it was there.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Good luck to her, Can I say Nampa Jim again?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You can?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I know You're just nice to say center nampaging price.
I just worked