Who is Sussan Ley? Australia's Opposition Party's first woman leader

Australia's conservative Liberal Party elected Sussan Ley, a former outback pilot with three finance degrees, as its first woman leader on Tuesday, after an election loss

Ley said her appointment as the first female leader of the Liberal Party "sent a signal" to Australian women, although her agenda would be "much more than that"

"We did let women down, there is no doubt about that, and it is true that the number of women supporting us is declining and I want to rule a line under that," she told a press conference in Canberra, reflecting on the conservative party's loss.

A former pilot who mustered livestock in Australia's vast outback and raised three children on a farm before graduating from university, Ley entered parliament in 2001.

Ley had become a strong person as a farmer's wife raising a family through years of drought, she said, and later gaining three finance degrees at university

Australia's conservative Liberal Party elected Sussan Ley, a former outback pilot with three finance degrees, as its first woman leader on Tuesday, after an election loss

Ley said her appointment as the first female leader of the Liberal Party "sent a signal" to Australian women, although her agenda would be "much more than that"

"We did let women down, there is no doubt about that, and it is true that the number of women supporting us is declining and I want to rule a line under that," she told a press conference in Canberra, reflecting on the conservative party's loss.

A former pilot who mustered livestock in Australia's vast outback and raised three children on a farm before graduating from university, Ley entered parliament in 2001.

Ley had become a strong person as a farmer's wife raising a family through years of drought, she said, and later gaining three finance degrees at university