Kellie Sloane elected unopposed as leader of the NSW Liberal Party

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Kellie Sloane has been elected as the new leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party. The first term MP was the only person to nominate for the position vacated by Mark Speakman.

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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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