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EPISODE · Sep 11, 2025 · 38 MIN

Is Sussan Ley's leadership in trouble?

from Politics Now · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Opposition leader Sussan Ley has demoted prominent Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the backbench, after a turbulent week of factional infighting. But the Senator has made it clear she "won't be silenced" on what she calls mass immigration.So, as the factional battlelines are drawn what does this mean for Sussan Ley's authority?Patricia Karvelas and Melissa Clarke are joined by Anna Henderson, SBS News Chief Political Correspondent to analyse how the saga has snowballed in the last week and where it leaves a deeply divided Liberal partyroom.And Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been rubbing shoulders with world leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum, but is Labor trying to have it have it both ways when it comes to addressing climate change concerns in the Pacific?Got a burning question?Got a burning political query? Send a short voice recording to PK and Mel for Question Time at [email protected]

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