Liberal Party of Australia

Former shadow health minister Ms Sloane was endorsed by Mr Speakman during a press conference announcing his resignation on Thursday afternoon and elected unopposed this morning.

The first-term MP has been elected unopposed as the new leader of the NSW Liberal party. Here's everything to know about Kellie Sloane.

NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman had declared he would need to be "blasted out" of the role, but his stance shifted this afternoon when it became clear his support had eroded.

NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says no-one has approached him to mount a leadership challenge.

The Liberals in two big Australian states are realigning themselves — shifting to what Sussan Ley once described as the sensible centre.

The leadership of the NSW Liberals remains in doubt with Mark Speakman's future in a perilous position. It comes as a new leader has been elected for the NSW Nationals.

Jess Wilson says it's "time for a new direction" for the party after she ousted Brad Battin, marking a historic milestone as the state's first female Coalition leader.

It was only a week ago that the moderates in the Liberal Party were flexing their muscle privately (and some publicly), threatening a divorce with the Nationals and to walk the plank if net zero was dumped. Neither threat ever materialised. 

The Liberal conservatives' success in forcing their party to dump its commitment to the net zero emissions reduction target has been a triumph of ideology over pragmatism.

While many Liberals who wanted to keep net zero say they are happy with the position the party has taken, some despondent moderates fear electoral oblivion in metropolitan seats.

Energy experts have cast doubt over the Liberal Party's central claim that it can bring down power prices by backing coal and gas, while questioning how the party plans to actually reduce emissions.

The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

Months of bitter infighting between Liberals over the party's climate policy could be drawing to a close, with MPs paving the way for net zero to be formally abandoned at a shadow ministry meeting on Thursday.

In Canberra, Liberal MPs are gathering to resolve their policy on climate change. 7.30’s Political Editor Jacob Greber speaks to Sarah Ferguson with the latest. 

Three Liberal politicians have been delayed getting to Canberra for climate talks after a Qantas plane was forced to make an urgent landing at Adelaide Airport when crews noticed smoke in the cabin.

Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is asking supporters to dig deep ahead of the festive season and help bankroll a $125,000 campaign fund three years out from the 2028 federal election.

The Coalition risks political extinction unless it can reconnect with younger voters who have abandoned it in droves. 

One of the Nationals' most strident opponents of net zero will attend talks on a final Coalition policy position. Before then, the Liberals must decide their own stance — but conservatives are now confident net zero will be dropped.

On Monday night, the NSW Nationals held a partyroom meeting to discuss their position on net zero following a report into Australia's energy future.

To be the leader of the Canberra Liberals you need to be thick-skinned, have a lot of persistence, and be very confident — and if Mark Parton's first press conference in the role is anything to go by, he might just be the perfect fit.