Sussan Ley
Leader of the Opposition, Member for Farrer
“We will respect, reflect and represent modern Australia”
About Sussan
Sussan brings a depth of professional and life experience to the role.
Sussan migrated to Australia when she was thirteen years old. She has always felt grateful for the opportunities provided by this country.
She has worked as a cleaner, waitress and short order cook in shearing sheds, where she learned the value of a hard day’s work.
In her thirties, while raising young children, Sussan earned three degrees, including master’s degrees in accounting and tax law.
Sussan pursued her dream of flying and became an aerial stock mustering pilot.
She raised three children on a family farm during tough years, characterised by high interest rates and the wool floor price collapse.
After holding a senior position at the Australian Tax Office, Sussan entered parliament as the Member for Farrer in 2001.
Sussan’s experience includes serving in the Health, Aged Care, Environment, Education and Regional Development portfolios in government.
She was Deputy Liberal Leader between 2022 and 2025. Sussan’s pathway into politics came through identifying with the Liberal values of hard work, effort, reward and opportunity.
She is determined to build a future where young Australians can realise their dreams and where we build and reward aspiration.
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While Labor stages another carefully managed talkfest in Canberra, we have been in Western Sydney listening to businesses like @eathergroup and their workers about what really matters.
Australians are paying more for power, health and housing. Productivity has stalled. Living standards have gone backwards.
The answers won’t come from closed doors in Canberra. They will come from listening to families and businesses, easing the cost of living and rewarding effort.
Australians don’t need more talk in Canberra that ends with higher taxes. What we need is a plan to fix the budget, get spending under control, and lift productivity so we can grow the economy and ease cost-of-living pressures.
My Coalition team will always back good ideas, but Australians deserve more than a talkfest. They deserve a government focused on putting money back in people’s pockets and securing our future.
At the Battle of Long Tan, Australian soldiers faced overwhelming odds in the heat of a rubber plantation. Outnumbered and under fire, they showed extraordinary courage, mateship and resilience.
Fifty-nine years on, today on Vietnam Veterans Day we honour the more than 60,000 Australians who served throughout the Vietnam War.
We remember the 3,000 who were wounded, and the 523 who never made it home.
Our veterans returned to a nation that was too slow to recognise their sacrifice. Today, we give them the gratitude and respect they have always deserved.
To every one of our Vietnam veterans – thank you.
Lest we forget.
From my family to the work I do today, these are the experiences that shaped me. Hard work, resilience and the belief that every Australian should have the chance to get ahead.
It is these values that guide me in Parliament and drive my determination to rebuild a stronger, more confident Liberal Party for our country`s future.
You can read the full piece in today`s papers.
Today we marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific, the moment that brought an end to the Second World War in our region.
At the Cenotaph in Martin Place, I was honoured to join veterans, including Second World War veterans, their families, community leaders and fellow Australians to remember the courage, sacrifice and resilience that secured our freedom. We laid wreaths in tribute, stood alongside those who served, and reflected on what their service means for our nation today.
For Australia, the Pacific War was not a distant conflict. It was fought on our doorstep, in our skies, and across the seas that connect us to our neighbours. From the jungles of New Guinea to the waters of the Coral Sea, Australians fought with distinction in some of the most brutal campaigns of the war. Many never returned.
Eighty years on, we remember both the cost of war and the power of reconciliation. We honour those who fought to end the darkness and those who built the peace that followed. Their legacy is a free, prosperous and democratic Australia, and it is our responsibility to protect it.
Lest we forget.
At the Australian American Leadership Dialogue with Mississippi @reptrentkelly, Delaware @senatorchriscoons and colleagues, at a pivotal time for our alliance and for the world.
With war in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East, strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific and a shifting global economy, this partnership has never been more important to our security and prosperity.
The Coalition is focused on a strong defence force, a resilient industrial base, deepening our engagement in the Indo-Pacific and delivering AUKUS.
South Australia’s algal bloom disaster should already be declared a natural disaster.
Instead, Minister Murray Watt is talking about whether it “fits the criteria” in Canberra while South Australian communities are losing their livelihoods. Fish stocks have been wiped out, tourism is suffering, and small businesses are on the brink.
The government has the power to act now. Stop hiding behind paperwork and deliver the help these communities urgently need.
The Prime Minister said Hamas would reject his position on Palestinian statehood.
Instead, a co-founder of Hamas has praised it. When terrorists are cheering your foreign policy, you have got it wrong.
The Government should follow the Coalition’s advice and reverse its reckless decision. Then it should quickly move its focus to core issues here at home like the cost of living crisis.
South Australians have been let down in the wake of the algal bloom disaster.
This crisis has devastated the coastline, crippled industries and shattered local communities. Yet the Albanese Government has dragged its feet. The PM should be here working with locals on solutions.
If this environmental disaster had struck Sydney or Melbourne, action would have come sooner. But South Australians have been overlooked, and they deserve far better than this.
We can care deeply about what’s happening in the world and still expect our leaders to put Australians first.
We oppose the Prime Minister’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state and in Government the Coalition will reverse it.
But Australians are doing it tough and the cost of everything is going up.
Instead of fixing it, the Prime Minister is focused on conflicts overseas where Australia has little influence.
Under Labor we have seen the largest decline in living standards in the developed world and the outlook isn`t getting any better.
It’s time to get back to the struggles and aspirations of Australians.
Recognising a Palestinian state while Hamas still holds hostages and runs Gaza doesn’t bring peace, it rewards terrorists.
The Prime Minister’s own conditions for recognition haven’t been met yet, but he’s gone ahead anyway, breaking with bipartisan policy and ignoring advice from our closest ally, the United States.
The Coalition supports a two-state solution — but this can only be achieved at the end of a genuine peace process, not as a gift to a terrorist organisation.