New Opposition Leader Sussan Ley may only last a day in the job, the Liberal Party's federal vice president has joked. Fiona Scott made the quip when she was asked on Today this morning about how long Ley - the Liberals' first female leader - would last.

Australia's Liberal Party has elected Sussan Ley as its new leader. She is the first woman ever to helm the party in its 80-year history. Ms Ley replaces Peter Dutton, who stepped down after leading the party to its worst election defeat in history.

Australia's conservative Liberal Party elected Sussan Ley, a former outback pilot with three finance degrees, as its first woman leader on Tuesday, after an election loss partly due to comparisons with U.