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Phillip Coorey

Sussan Ley takes on the old guard, not for the first time in her life

The opposition leader, as her colleagues are starting to discover, can handle herself.

A telling insight into the scale of the cultural shift Sussan Ley is trying to effect within the Liberal Party came last week at a meeting of the organisation’s federal executive.

Ley was moving a motion to lock in a new team of party figures to continue for another nine months the controversial intervention into the factionally crippled NSW division of the party.

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Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence. Connect with Phillip on Facebook and Twitter. Email Phillip at pcoorey@afr.com

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