Natassia Chrysanthos

Sydney

Federal Politics Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

Federal politics reporter @smh and @theage: immigration, borders, social cohesion, as well as NDIS

Articles

Glass ceiling or glass cliff? What awaits Sussan Ley as the first woman to lead the Liberals

1 day ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Liberal Party’s worst-ever electoral wipeout has led it to choose its first-ever female leader. Sussan Ley’s ascension to head of the federal Liberal Party will be celebrated as a milestone that has evaded the party for years.
Labor ministry swearing in makes work of government look like child’s play

2 days ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Labor’s new ministers rolled into Government House fresh from an electoral landslide with their families in tow. Toddlers scrambled out of comcars one at a time.
Labor ministry swearing in makes work of government look like child’s play

2 days ago | watoday.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

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Labor ministry swearing-in makes work of government look like child’s play

2 days ago | theage.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Labor’s new ministers rolled into Government House fresh from an electoral landslide with their families in tow. Toddlers scrambled out of comcars one at a time.
Who’s in and who’s out of the new-look Albanese ministry

2 days ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s one-time Left faction rival Tanya Plibersek will remain in cabinet as the minister for social services after weeks of speculation about her future.
After driving into ‘an electoral dead end’, where to now for the Liberal Party?

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Three weeks out from the federal election, Melissa McIntosh revved up the crowd for the Liberal Party’s campaign launch. On the far reaches of suburban Sydney, she made her welcome to Menzies’ forgotten people, Howard’s battlers, Morrison’s quiet Australians, “and, with Peter Dutton, the heartland of our Australian Liberal Party, the forgotten people, the backbone of our nation”.
Price’s dream come true unleashes a moderate’s nightmare

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Senator Jacinta Price’s colleagues in the Nationals have long touted her as leadership potential. Now, Liberal Party leadership hopeful Angus Taylor wants to make their dream a reality. In doing so, he unleashes a moderate Liberal’s nightmare. Price’s defection to the Liberals on Thursday throws a wildcard into a leadership showdown that will define the party after a historic defeat.
Price’s dream come true unleashes a moderate’s nightmare

6 days ago | watoday.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

Senator Jacinta Price’s colleagues in the Nationals have long touted her as leadership potential. Now, Liberal Party leadership hopeful Angus Taylor wants to make their dream a reality. In doing so, he unleashes a moderate Liberal’s nightmare. Price’s defection to the Liberals on Thursday throws a wildcard into a leadership showdown that will define the party after a historic defeat. Taylor is expected to run against Sussan Ley with Price as his deputy.
Who is new Liberal Party leadership contender Sussan Ley? Career history, family and background as race against Taylor, Tehan tightens

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sussan Ley has trekked the wilderness before. Before gap years were a rite of passage, an 18-year-old Ley “hitched up a horse and a pack horse and decided to ride from Yass to the Ninety Mile Beach”. She rode through Kosciuszko, with no phone, just a topographical map on her saddle to guide her through to the other side.
How city voters all but wiped the Liberal Party off the map

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos

Either way, the electoral map shows a significant deterioration in metropolitan areas since the 2022 election reduced Liberal holdings from 38 to 20 city seats, leaving it with four inner suburban seats and 16 in the outer suburbs. The Liberal Party’s review of that defeat said its result in Australian cities was concerning. “The only demographic class where the Liberal Party and National Party have a stronghold is in rural electorates,” it cautioned.