Former opposition leader Sussan Ley has described the \u201cinevitable ending\u201d of her political career in her first live appearance since being ousted from the Liberal Party. <\/p>\n
Ms Ley appeared on the ABC\u2019s 7:30 on Tuesday night, where she discussed the conclusion of her time in politics and detailed what she did in the aftermath of being dethroned by Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on February 13. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I lost the leadership, and went through, you know, the inevitable ending of 25 years in public life, I knew that I needed to find my own voice,\u201d she told 7:30 host Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a political self-reckoning for me, and I went through that process.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was about finding clarity. And I did find clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Ley described taking a road trip on a Greyhound bus that went from the top of Central America to the bottom, which she said gave her the chance to \u201cto speak in my own voice\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t go to America to become an expert, I went to America to look, to notice, and to quietly write.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was people whose lives were in transition and disarray, and that\u2019s what struck me from the moment I got on the first bus,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to describe the expression on someone\u2019s face that comes from a lifetime of being overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Ley said the trip served as a cure for burnout she had experienced and to move on past her time as a politician.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s allowed me to draw a line, very conclusively, under those 25 years in public life. And move to this next chapter, where I know that I will have more to say,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I dealt with the effects of burnout, it didn\u2019t bring me undone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allowed me to move to the next chapter of my life, which is where I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Ley was reluctant to discuss her political career or the current political climate but said she was \u201cproud of what I achieved\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no point in relitigating something that happened in the past,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I think about my time in politics, I\u2019m proud of what I achieved. I don\u2019t dwell on it, because I\u2019m very much focused on the next chapter of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
When questioned about controversial views from the One Nation party surrounding Australia\u2019s multiculturalism, Ms Ley recalled her experiences in the US to support a multicultural community in Australia. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a huge supporter of the Australian multicultural project for the simple reason we\u2019ve been able to achieve multicultural Australia not by erasing people\u2019s differences, but giving them space to belong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is something we should all be incredibly proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Ley said that she had found what she was looking for and would \u201cleave the political commentary to others\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former opposition leader Sussan Ley has described the \u201cinevitable ending\u201d of her political career in her first live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96303,60878,96309,64274,96308,76190,59966,92358,96314,69787,96315,73500,40916,96320,96319,52537,88049,124,62274,22,23,21,29211,6726,65898,96312,96297,94143,96310,96302,96321,96304,96322,59150,96299,96295,47155,21061,39252,96311,41281,96306,2054,36518,96323,30572,7350,96301,149,53460,96317,4699,1941,36755,39660,37402,96300,41495,48035,61038,96298,85525,96307,96316,50037,96313,56554,9754,37772,45554,92462,38744,96305,96294,37020,41657,36628,96296,96318,88005,36985,46968],"class_list":["post-70414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-end","tag-s-730","tag-s-differences","tag-s-face","tag-s-multiculturalism","tag-25-years","tag-730-host-sarah-ferguson","tag-a-huge-supporter","tag-a-25-year-career","tag-a-cure","tag-a-greyhound-bus","tag-a-lifetime","tag-a-line","tag-a-multicultural-community","tag-a-political-self-reckoning","tag-a-politician","tag-a-road-trip","tag-america","tag-an-expert","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-austrlia","tag-burnout","tag-central-america","tag-clarity","tag-controversial-views","tag-ex-opposition-leader-sussan-ley","tag-february-13","tag-former-opposition-leader-sussan-ley","tag-her-experiences","tag-her-first-live-appearance","tag-her-first-public-television-appearance","tag-her-political-career","tag-her-time","tag-inevitable","tag-leadership-spill-aftermath","tag-ms-ley","tag-multicultural-australia","tag-my-life","tag-my-own-voice","tag-my-time","tag-new-post-politics-chapter","tag-newswire-politics","tag-night","tag-no-point","tag-opposition-leader-angus-taylor","tag-people","tag-political-career","tag-politics","tag-public-life","tag-self-reckoning","tag-space","tag-sussan-ley","tag-that-process","tag-the-abc","tag-the-aftermath","tag-the-australian-multicultural-project","tag-the-bottom","tag-the-chance","tag-the-conclusion","tag-the-current-political-climate","tag-the-effects","tag-the-expression","tag-the-first-bus","tag-the-former-leader","tag-the-inevitable-ending","tag-the-leadership","tag-the-liberal-party","tag-the-moment","tag-the-next-chapter","tag-the-one-nation-party","tag-the-past","tag-the-political-commentary","tag-the-simple-reason","tag-the-top","tag-the-trip","tag-the-us","tag-this-next-chapter","tag-those-25-years","tag-transition-and-disarray","tag-tuesday","tag-whose-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}