Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday after his Labor Party rode a voter backlash against global instability caused by Trump’s policies to a come-from-behind victory in the May 3 national election.

The opposition conservative Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton, who had been labelled by Labor after echoing Trump policies to cut thousands of public service jobs including diversity and inclusion roles, lost his seat.

Ley said her appointment as the first female leader of the Liberal Party to Australian women, although her agenda would be, flagging the need for new policies on economic and tax reform.

she told a press conference in Canberra, reflecting on the conservative party’s loss.

The Liberal Party has lost city seats in Sydney and Melbourne to women who ran as independent candidates with policies supporting climate change and gender equality in the last two elections.

Ley said the Liberal Party needs to
she added.

A former pilot who mustered livestock in Australia’s vast outback and raised three children on a farm before graduating from university, Ley entered parliament in 2001.

She acknowledged her mother, who she said was in end of life care, as instilling in her the value of resilience.

She also paid tribute to the she had listened to as a cook in the hut at the end of a hard day’s work in the hot sun.

She had become a strong person as a farmer’s wife raising a family throughppp years of drought, she said, and later gaining three finance degrees at university.

The caravan Ley had lived in as a shearers’ cook was later painted to become her Liberal Party campaign vehicle, she recalled.

The Australian Electoral Commission is yet to finalise vote counting in several seats, although Labor said it is ahead in at least 94 seats out of the -seat House of Representatives.

It was the largest Labor caucus since Australia was formed by the federation of six former British colonies in 1901, Albanese said.

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