New Liberal leader Kellie Sloane’s warning to Premier Chris Minns: ‘We have done it before. And we will do it again.’
NSW’s new Liberal leader has warned her Labor counterpart: We’ve beaten you once and ‘we will do it again’.
Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane gave a speech to her party members in which she declared they will win the state election on Saturday.
The speech was delivered while Ms Sloane was in the presence of her party’s leader, Sussan Ley, for the first time in public since her ascension to leader last week.
It was during the NSW Liberal state council that Ms Sloane made her bold prediction, asking the party faithful to stand with both her and their other candidates.
Ms Sloane replaced former opposition leader Mark Speakman who was never able to get the job done.
The new leader, a former Nine TV presenter, attempted to put aside any angst in the room by conceding that ‘the road to March 2027 will be demanding’.
‘It will take discipline, unity and relentless focus,’ she said, reports the Daily Telegraph.
‘But I believe deeply in our party, in our values and in our capacity to rise to this moment. We have done it before. And we will do it again.’
NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane vowed to defeat Chris Minns at the 2027 state election
Ms Sloane warned Mr Minns: ‘We have done it before. And we will do it again’
Ms Sloane doled out wisdom from two former Liberal leaders during her speech to rile up the party.
‘Robert Menzies spoke of the forgotten people who shoulder the real responsibilities of national life (and) John Howard reminded us that the strength of the nation begins in the strength of the household,’ the leader said.
She also promised to put families at the centre of her policy agenda.
It is not only ‘sound policy’ to support families but the party’s ‘duty’ to do so, she added.
Ms Ley used her time behind the microphone to bash Labor’s efforts to reform the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act which passed federal parliament on Friday.
The Opposition leader dismissed the new legislation as nothing but a new form of ‘red tape’ which marked the ‘rebirth’ of the Labor Greens alliance.
This partnership ‘is back in full force’, Ms Ley warned.
She also predicted the new legislation would in fact do nothing for the environment it had sworn to protect.
Opposition leader Sussan Ley has heaped her support on Ms Sloane since the new leader took over the party’s NSW branch on November 22
It has been a rough month for the Liberals, with Ms Ley facing a firestorm over her new position to rescind the party’s net zero targets.
Infighting ensued ensued over both that reversal and its position on immigration which has become a fire point between members.
Ms Ley promised to forge ahead despite these hiccups and assured her members that she would continue campaigning on the issues.
She insists both positions will stand as winners at the next election despite the pushback her party has received from voters.
Ms Sloane’s first day on the job was no picnic either as protesters heckled her during a photo-op in the streets of Parramatta on November 22.
She was accused of being a leader for ‘developers and billionaires’ by her opponents on the street who pointed and shouted at her.
The Vaucluse MP countered the naysayers by insisting she was happy to sit down and talk through their ‘tough’ concerns.
Ms Sloane is a first-term MP who completed her meteoric ascent to the top of the NSW Liberals after the chaotic aftermath of the federal Liberals’ election wipe-out tarnished their state brands and fuelled calls for fresh faces.
Former NSW premiers Gladys Berejiklian and Mike Baird, and Ms Ley, have all wished Ms Sloane well as she steps into the job.
