{"id":298056,"date":"2025-11-20T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298056\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:07:18","slug":"nsw-liberal-party-leader-kellie-sloane-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298056\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Liberal Party leader: Kellie Sloane elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane has been elected as the new NSW Liberal Party leader after Mark Speakman resigned following weeks of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition whips Adam Crouch and Chris Rath confirmed Sloane was unanimously elected in a brief party room meeting this morning after shadow attorney-general and Wahroonga MP Alister Henskens backed out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy leader Natalie Ward retained her position, helping create the first all-female leadership team in the state party&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c5081812-efc3-4757-be09-3f479a95318a.jpeg\"   alt=\"Kellie Sloane, Liberal Vaucluse MP in Sydney, speaks about threats she has received after condemning a neo-nazi protest in Sydney.\"\/>Kelli Sloane said she had received &#8216;violent&#8217; threats after condemning a neo nazi protest in Sydney. (Sitthixay Ditthavong)<\/p>\n<p>Sloane said it was an &#8220;incredible honour, a huge responsibility&#8221; but she was &#8220;ready to work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few moments ago, a united Liberal Party room endorsed me as the new leader, and it&#8217;s an incredible honour, a huge responsibility, one I don&#8217;t take lightly,&#8221; she told reporters outside the party room,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to work for New South Wales, and I thank my colleagues for the faith and the trust that they&#8217;ve placed in me today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new leader will hold a press conference later today.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffSloane has had a quick rise to the top after only being a little over two years into her first term as Vaucluse MP and shadow health minister.<\/p>\n<p>Speakman endorsed her leadership when he resigned yesterday afternoon, telling the media that she had approached him for the role. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7a00cf39-6581-4785-80c4-97dd78596842.jpeg\"   alt=\"Mark Speakman has stood down as NSW Liberal leader.\"\/>Mark Speakman has stood down as NSW Liberal leader. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kellie Sloane will be a fantastic leader if selected by the parliamentary Liberal Party,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is someone of enormous talent. She is not only a great communicator, she has extensive experience as a businesswoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is someone I hope will lead the Liberal Party to the next election. She will have my full support. She will have my endorsement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speakman was ousted just days after his Victorian counterpart, Brad Battin, also lost his position in a leadership spill.<\/p>\n<p>He said his colleagues wanted &#8220;renewal and regeneration&#8221; after previously denying his role was up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane has been elected as the new NSW Liberal Party leader after Mark Speakman resigned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-298056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}