• Source: Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

The Leader of the Liberal Party, also known as Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, is the highest office within the Liberal Party of Australia and the Liberal–National Coalition. The position is currently, and has been since 30 May 2022, held by Peter Dutton, who represents the Division of Dickson in Queensland. Peter Dutton is the fifteenth leader of the Liberal Party. Dutton is also the first leader of the party to represent a Queensland electorate.
The current Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party is Sussan Ley.




History


The Liberal Party leadership was first held by former United Australia Party leader and eventual co–founder Robert Menzies, along with eighteen political organisations and groups.
Following the oustings of two Liberal prime ministers in three years, Scott Morrison introduced a new threshold to trigger a Liberal Party leadership change in government, requiring two-thirds of the partyroom vote to trigger a spill motion. The change was introduced at an hour long party room meeting on the evening of 3 December 2018. Morrison said the changes, which were drafted with feedback from former prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott, would only apply to leaders who lead the party to victory at a federal election.




Role


Since the days of Menzies, the Liberal Party has either been in government with a coalition or in opposition to the Labor. Thus, the leader of the Liberal Party can often be the Prime Minister of Australia or Leader of the Opposition. Furthermore, the leader picks the Cabinet and is also the leader of the Coalition. The Liberal Party only had one leader of the party from the Senate, John Gorton, for a brief period in January 1968 before he resigned from the Senate to contest the Higgins by-election in February 1968.




Leaders of the Liberal Party


Note: the right-hand column does not allocate height proportional to time in office.
A list of leaders (including acting leaders) since 1945.




= Federal leaders by time in office

=

Totals for leaders who served multiple non-consecutive terms:

John Howard: 16 years, 184 days
Malcolm Turnbull: 4 years, 59 days
Andrew Peacock: 3 years, 142 days




= Federal deputy leaders

=




= Leaders in the Senate

=




See also



Leader of the Australian Labor Party




Notes






References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Partai Nasional Australia
• Koalisi (Australia)
• Partai Nasional Liberal Queensland
• Populisme sayap kanan
• Korea Utara
• Malcolm Turnbull
• Mahathir Mohamad
• Sosialisme
• Sosialisme demokratis
• Koalisi lampu lalu lintas
• Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Liberal Party of Australia
• Liberal National Party of Queensland
• New South Wales Liberal Party
• President of the Liberal Party of Australia
• South Australian Liberal Party
• Liberal Party
• Liberal Party of Canada
• National Right (Liberal Party of Australia)
• Country Liberal Party