Kellie Sloane elected unopposed as leader of the NSW Liberal Party

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Let's get more now on New South Wales MP Kellie Sloane becoming the new state Liberal leader after a short party room meeting this morning. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has welcomed the appointment of Kellie Sloane as opposition leader. Mr Minns has also paid tribute to outgoing leader Mark Speakman.

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00:00Yeah, Kelly Sloan's a really lovely person and I wish her the very best for the job.

00:06Obviously I'm in competition with her, but it's a real honour to lead a political party,

00:10so hats off to her, it's an achievement for her.

00:13I want to also pay tribute to Mark Speakman, one of the gentlemen of politics in Australia,

00:20someone that I genuinely believe believes in public service,

00:24so I thought he handled himself with so much class in the last 24 hours

00:29and although it's disappointing for him, I think in many respects he's enhanced his,

00:34the public's view of Mark would have been enhanced, not detracted over the last 24 hours,

00:39so I just wish him the best in the future, he's a very decent person.

00:42I have read a lot of commentary in the last week about Labor landing bombs on the Liberals

00:48and the Liberal Party landing bombs on Labor.

00:50I think the truth of the matter is we've both got a responsibility to work together if we can.

00:56There's got to be some common ground between the political parties.

00:59There's plenty of time for us to trade political barbs in the future,

01:03but if there's things that we can work on today to better New South Wales,

01:07that's got to be our focus.

01:08It doesn't have to be relentlessly negative.

01:10Politics doesn't have to be about fighting each other.

01:13If there are things that the two of us can work on to make New South Wales better,

01:17I am up for it and I hope Kelly is too.

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