Up Late: Not your cookie cutter Liberal candidate

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In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey explains how three unusual jobs Sussan Ley had before politics qualified her to survive the political Hunger Games and become the federal Liberal party’s first female leader.

In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey explains how three unusual jobs Sussan Ley had before politics qualified her to survive the political Hunger Games and become the federal Liberal party’s first female leader. Harvey also goes inside the mind of Ley’s jilted rival, Angus Taylor, to speculate about what leadership schemes he might be concocting.

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