00:00Well, Kelly Sloan began by thanking the man she effectively helped unseat yesterday.
00:08Mark Speakman resigned as New South Wales Liberal leader late yesterday,
00:12paving the way for Kelly Sloan to be voted unopposed as New South Wales Liberal leader
00:18in a party room meeting this morning.
00:20She's held her first press conference and talked a lot about the sorts of people
00:24that she would like the party to attract.
00:26She spoke about young people, about families, about people in the state she says are doing it tough
00:32and people that the New South Wales Liberals need to appeal to.
00:36She says her parliamentary team is one of the youngest and it's also almost half women.
00:42And while she says she's not sure about quotas,
00:45she thinks that it is a good thing to aim for more women in the New South Wales Liberals.
00:50I certainly want to see more women in our federal party.
00:53I'd love to see more women in our state party.
00:55I hope that when they see a female female leadership team,
00:59which wasn't about gender but just happened,
01:02that that will inspire more women to enter politics.
01:05So that's my hope.
01:06Kelly Sloan was also asked about the issue of net zero by 2050.
01:11The New South Wales Liberals convened this week and agreed to stay with that policy,
01:16which puts them at odds with the federal coalition, which has abandoned net zero by 2050.
01:21She was pushed by reporters on whether that confused voters by having a state and a federal party with differing opinions.
01:30And all she said was that she hoped that the parties were able to come to an agreement at some point.
01:35Well, I'd like to stop talking about those two words and be focused on the here and now and the pain for families in New South Wales.
01:42We have had a consistent position on net zero since 2016 as a coalition.
01:47I believe we can work through the nuts and bolts of policies that will drive practical outcomes,
01:54reduce the expenses for families in New South Wales and we will all come to a happy conclusion around that.
01:59I've got great faith we can do that.
02:01Kelly Sloan is taking on this job at a difficult time for the New South Wales Liberals in opposition.
02:07She was also asked why she initially was hesitant to push Mark Speakman out of the job.
02:12She initially was saying that she was reluctant to take on this role.
02:16She said that she did what a lot of professional women often do.
02:19She thought of all the reasons why she couldn't and then decided that the time had come that she must.
02:25And with the support of her colleagues, she was elected unopposed this morning.
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